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Show In an effort to pacify the farmers, the Democratic Demo-cratic press asserts that taking off the duty of 5 cents a dozen and admitting 72,000,000 eggs free of duty did not reduce the price the farmer receives. re-ceives. If the importation of 72,000,000 eggs didn't injuriously compete with the American farmer, why did the Chinese producer send them here after the tariff was removed, but not before? It is true that the imported eggs are small in size and deteriorated by age, but so much the worse, for they serve that much more effectively In holding f down the price the farmer receives for good eggs. |