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ported fixed the price of the thousand bushels consumed at 

 home." 



Perhaps there is no more deplorable feature con- 

 nected with the present distressed condition of our 

 industries, and demoralization of trade, than is the 

 favor with which any fallacy, sophistry, or misrepre- 

 sentation of the matter, or any attendant fact, is re- 

 ceived by those who are popularly esteemed the most 

 intelligent and " well to do " classes, and the exceed- 

 ing disfavor shown towards any attempt to truthfully 

 examine the real facts, and show actual conditions. 



