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Show THE FARMER'S TARIFF. The farmer's troubles assuredly do not arise from paying prices enhanced by the tariff on manufactures, for all that he uses in building build-ing house and barn- fencing and cultivating his acres is on the free list. His troubles have rather come from production of a surplus for export, but his principal market is at home and every year it consumes a larger proportion of his produce. That growing market is the result re-sult of prosperity in the industrial and manufacturing field. The present protective tariff, by stimulating industrial production, intensifies inten-sifies domestic competion, which actually results in lower prices for manufactured goods. It builds up home industries, thus preventing foreign producers from getting a strangle hold on American markets. I This results in increased employment for American labor at good i wages, increased market for American products at good prices, and lower prices for American consumers of the goods thus manufactured. i Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel.- - |