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the difPerential duties Avere on — as sliovvn by the 

 increased British milling — is proof, we think, 

 that a similar result would accrue were some such 

 expedient resorted to as was resorted to when the 

 duties above referred to were imposed. 



The mere man in the street may naturally ask 

 what the Cobden Club really knows about agri- 

 culture, and what value, if any, can be attached 

 to its assertions on any trade when, in regard 

 to the oldest and largest industry in the kingdom, 

 it is so glaringly at fault — both in 1S8S and in 

 1903! 



