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Show Secretary Shaw's speech on the tariff is the jIH most sensible utterance on the subject that has . tUll appeared in two years. A simple illustration iHH makes the tariff question plain. (!HH If a man has herds of cattle and bands of 1KB horses which he pastures mostly on government ilHI ranges, he can afford to be a free trader against iH all the world except the sheep men. Ml If he has luxuriant meadows and great fields fHH of grain and is surrounded by stock men, .the lil world would call him crazy were he to throw down Hfl his fences and advocate free trade. Hfl |