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Show WIY I AM A PROTECTIONIST. (First It brings together diversified diversi-fied industries which ' never fail to1 vastly in crease the personal intelligence, intelli-gence, industry and wage earnings of the people. Second It adds prodigiously to the power of increasing by machinery and steam and water power the ne-essaries ne-essaries of life and of advanced civilization, and also greatly cheapens cheap-ens the cost of subsistence. Third-It furnishes an opportunity for every person to and the employment employ-ment best adapted to his or her genius and capacity that wijjl secure the largest income or the greatest happiness. Fourth It creates a home market, without which the cultivators of land in America would be but a little better bet-ter off than our aborigines. Fifth -It is the bulwark $f national nation-al independence in peace or war. Justin S. Monil in America Economist, |