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Show SUTHERLAND IS MISTAKEN. Wheii Mb. Sutherland remarked on Wednesday evening that whatever college professors might say about the tariff', such and such were the facts, he threw his cause open to criticism. It is true the college professors and those who take up this question as ft science do almost unanimously conclude that the so-called protective tariff is wrong. So do the professors of the sciences of geometry, and astronomy, and law, and other sciences come to different conclusions conclu-sions from the cursory observer; but will any sane man, who knows nothing or very" little about these matters, dispute dis-pute the result of their calculations and set up his own intuitive judgment against them? And if he does, will people peo-ple believe him ? We don't doubt but columns of figures can be quoted to show that . certain commodities have fallen in price while there was a tariff on their importation, but it is contrary to reason to allege that such reduction was the result of the tariff else why retain re-tain the tariff? and no one can average up the whole field without demonstrating demonstrat-ing absolutely the inequality and injustice in-justice of the thing. |
