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United States, or only to an insignificant extent. In other 

 words, these are products for which our farmers are not 

 in competition. With the exception of tea, which was 

 dutied that year though it has since been admitted free, 

 nearly all the articles in this class were on the free list. 

 Protection renders no assistance to the farmer here. But 

 this class diminishes the agricultural import list by 

 $177,602,000, or a percentage of total of 42.28%. 



Class 2. These imports are similar to those produced 

 by a very small number of our farmers. No doubt at all 

 about protection to the producers of these. The wool 

 rj duty averaged about 49% that year, the duty on lemons 

 \1 43, oranges 63, rice 63, unmanufactured tobacco mostly 

 71 and 188, and sugar nearly 74%. But because a few 

 farmers are protected it does not follow that the average 

 individual or the class is — ' ' one swallow does not make a 

 summer. ' ' We even claim that the favor shown to these 

 makes it harder for the rest of the class. The duties on 

 these goods undoubtedly increased the cost of all similar 

 products grown in the United States, and so made higher 

 the cost of farmers' supplies. If the writer's memory 

 , serves him rightly, when duties were put on wool in 1897, 

 in less than a year's time the price went up ten cents a 

 pound, causing an advance in all goods into which wool 

 enters. In 1889 the export price of refined sugar is given 

 in the United States Statistical Reports as 7.6 cents per 

 pound. In 1890 the Eepublican party put sugar on the 

 free list and the export price fell in 1892 to 4.6 cents per 

 pound. About the same fall in price in sugar for those 

 years took place in the New York market. In 1894 and 

 1895 the price of hard granulated there was 4.12 cents a 

 pound. The duty was again put on, and in 1900 the price 

 i is given as 5.32 cents per pound. 



