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Show '"I : The Bounty Bill. ' M '' jl' ' " Kegarding Senator Onnuou's export I $? H bounty which recently was introduced VnjjT,., a'"' ' in the senate and received so little . 'IjWHjLl i", support, the' Washington Post says: -tlpllBIg' ?-. lion. Frank J. Cannon, United States ,- ."IMmMi: ' Senator from Utah, has at last elaborated i 'koFISkwJ ' ' l'a proposition to tho effect that agricul- ' '" Jlfi1'' x ture is asjustlyontitled togovernmental K'.-' protection a.id enconrugeineut as com- 'T'2&u " nierco or manufacture. There was ' jfs" '' ' some disposition to ridicule Mr. Can- '' -5' '"' non'a ideas at ilrst. One heard a gie.it .;V iK. deal of more or tess foolish talk about h ' f;' Populism, Socialism, Ac, in tho con- . ' ' K' nection. That our great Manufactui ing industries should be cared for seemed " well enough to the average wiseacre, I but any tall: about helping the fanner j was mere folderol and moonshine. The 1 trouble was that the wiseacre had be- con'C used to the one custom and had never boforo heard of tho other. Asa t matter of fact, however, tho case of iho agriculturist is as strong as that of the manufacture. The method by which he may be aided is different. I lis chum is . 'Vt exuetly equal. |