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paying you forty, fifty, and sixty cents a bushel, from year 

 to year, as the case may be, for your corn ; now that we are 

 receiving only one dollar a day where we had two, we shall 

 pay you twenty or twenty-five cents a bushel for your corn, 

 and everything else in proportion." That would bring the 

 thing back again on the farmer. You would curtail his 

 income, you would lower his condition, and, as I said in my 

 paper, suppress the American farmer and you suppress the 

 underlying power of the nation. [Applause.] 



Mr. Taft. I have succeeded in bringing out just what I 

 wanted to ; but as you know, sir, and as many of those hero 

 know, that is not the sentiment of Massachusetts, if we can 

 gather it from the votes of the people, but rather the con- 

 trary. We have just elected in the old ninth district, of 

 which the city of Worcester forms a part, a man who 

 believes in free trade, or, at any rate, in materially reducing 

 the present tariff". I am very glad that we have got the 

 opinion of the gentleman ; it agrees with my own. I asked 

 the essayist to whom I have referred, after he got through, 

 this question: "Suppose you bought that suit of clothes 

 for twenty-five dollars instead of seventy-five, would the 

 men who spun and wove that cloth get as many dollars per 

 day as they do now?" " That has nothing to do Avilh the 

 question," the essayist said. But it seems to me that what 

 the operatives of that valley receive for their daily wages 

 has a good deal to do with the income of those who sell 

 potatoes and cabbages and a great many other things. 



Dr. BowEX. I hope the operatives are wise enough to 

 put that question to themselves, and if they do, I think they 

 will say that it makes a difference to them whether they 

 receive one dollar a day or fifty cents. 



Mr. Sedgwick of AVcst Cornwall, Conn. The gentleman 

 said in his paper that France and other countries had put an 

 inport duty on cereals and breadstuff's. That is a fact ; but 

 he did not state that those countries named are not countries 

 that have those articles to export. He did not state the 

 fact that America has a large amount of agricultural pro- 

 ductions the only market for which is abroad, and the price 

 that we are receiving to-day in this country for beef and 

 pork, is the price that is made in Liverpool, or in those 



