Show THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS the sam sum which bir tariff would gire give to foreigners this is 1 the sum by which mr milla mills I 1 wishes to reduce tho the wages of labor and I 1 P I 1 the of manufacturing in this country it is also the sum by which L be he proposes to increase in creaso the income 0 of f P it laborers manufacturers and middlemen P in europe we take it this is the I 1 I 1 only moaning meaning that can be attached to hia his declaration that be he would increase 1 1 the we imports of this country by A I 1 I 1 I 1 61 f t i i aaa A A 4 1 AL ay siu SE 0 0 r for 0 O be aej hl hia a 1 una ad are oppose opposed il pol t to 0 t the be free fin imports arts 0 of f luxuries though they do not think anything made in england is a luxury and as we learn from representative holman it is not wrong to put a duty on things not grown or produced in this country as that ia Is a revenue duty the increased importations wished for must ba be either manufactured or agricultural products which bocan wo can raise or make in this country this immense sum enough to give people each it is hoped to pass to foreign laborers manufacturers middlemen bankers and others of the capitalist classes and part of it is to g go 0 to paying nearly three times as much freight for carrying a ton one mile as ts is paid in this country that english railroads may declare a larger dividend on their immense capitalization than is paid on one fifth the capital per mile in this country we are assured that this will boot be of benefit to all classes in this country except the monopolist class since our sheep growers have been called monopolists it will be noticed that the true monopolist class is in the mouth of the free trader an elastic one dut but we fail to see where the american farmer is helped by the importation of wheat barley and eggs from canada or rice from india or cotton from egypt nor will it immediately appear bow how the importation por tation of say locomotives from i germany or england can increase the work in our locomotive fac factories torim captain codman man would say it if foreign locomotive builders hoped to establish a trade here that such an importation would give our mechanics work on repairs and teach them how to build locomotives and he is probably right about there the repairs paim mr mills will doubtless say that by importing locomotives our freight rates would bo be lowered but we n now havo e ie cheapest h pest freight rates in the world and free rree trade england has the dearest this does not look on its face as if free trade would reduce the cost of transportation and as a matter of fact before about 1870 our freight rates had always been higher than the english rates the great advantage from this increased importation as explained by mr mills is that buying more wo sell more and farmers will have an improved market for their produce if this were true or even probable it might be worth while to try greater purchases hasea let us sea see what has happened when we had little or no protection from 1810 1840 the date of the walker darill until 1876 when our receipts from duties on goods and wares imported for the tile first time since the war exceeded the receipts from internal revenue wo w bought over worth of merchandise more than we sold there was no protection and we exported gold bonds and other evidences of indebtedness to liquidate our debts this did not help the bariner fa riner unless he lie was a capitalist loaning money for according to mr edward atkinson interest was about twice as high all over the country as a s now at present we are exporting a great deal of farm produce and the other grain growing countries are not exporting as much as usual but the london financial times writes of us that their bread breadstuffs stuffs instead of being at a ransom as was anticipated do not command within 10 per cent of the price of a year ago mr mills apparently desires to turn half a million mechanics out of work in shops on to farms that the bri british h grain market may bo be still further glutted that the rate of interest may be raised to the standard ot 0 twenty five years ago so that the voice of the calamity Bc may be once more heard in the land and hia his section of tho the democratic party may retain power Is the game worth the ca candle nIle |