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ion. If it is to be made in the old way there is evidence already 

 at hand that it will be based upon misstatements and misunderstand- 

 ing. It will harm the public infinitely. It may lessen, but it will not 

 abolish, the graft now estimated conservatively at $500,000,000 per 

 year. 



The public is thoroughly aroused and the work of reform is pro- 

 gressing as fast as ever any national movement of equal consequence. 

 One of the most fortunate consequences of a justly protective tariff 

 will be the tremendous enlargement of foreign trade. We pride our- 

 selves upon the exportation of $1,082,000,000 of manufactured products, 

 but 63 per cent, of these exports are crude and semi-crude; meat, 

 petroleum, rails, billets, bar iron, lumber, cement, skins, etc. They 

 contain 20 per cent, or less of labor. These are the very products needed 

 by our own more numerous manufacturers at moderate prices for the 

 employment of American operatives and the development into more 

 highly finished products. With tariff correction, these semi-finished 

 products will go abroad in higher forms with from two to five times more 

 of good American labor in them. We shall become in larger and larger 

 measure an industrial bee-hive, with our foundation world-wide and 

 not to be shaken as heretofore by domestic panic. With this broaden- 

 ing of trade will come an intellectual and moral broadening and ease- 

 ment that will make us more truly the world power we sometimes affect 

 to be. 



