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ter year, when the Dingley bill was being constructed, the 

 two Eepublican leaders, Mr. Dingley in the House and 

 Mr. Aldrich in the Senate, agreed that, owing to 

 ''changed conditions," less protection was required than 

 at the time of the passage of the McKinley bill in 1890. 

 The Senator said: ''The bitter contest that is going on 

 among the leading nations of the world for industrial 

 supremacy has brought about improvements in methods 

 and economy of production to an extent not thought pos- 

 sible a few years ago." Is the industrial gain credited 

 to "protection" by this man who has led the protection- 

 ists many years in Congress? No, to hitter contest/' 



AVhat said Mr. Archer Brown in the Forum Magazine 

 of November, 1900, of this same time : ' ' The trials of the 

 lean years following the panic forced economies of manu- 

 facture and modernizing of plant to a point that excited 

 the admiration and wonder of rivals of other nations." 

 Again: "Let us glance at the marvelous record of our 

 progress since the uses of adversity taught us how to 

 make the cheapest iron and steel, thereby opening up the 

 markets of the world. ' ' 



The Forum says of Mr. Brown: "He has been closely 

 identified with the movement for the export of iron, and 

 has spent several months in Europe stud}dng conditions 

 and organizing business there; is director of a number 

 of leading iron, steel and coal corporations, also director 

 of the North American Trust Company." A man so 

 engaged, occupying the positions he did, should best 

 know the facts of the situation. 



The storv is told. The little book goes forth on its 

 mission. It is believed to be the only publication in the 

 world that gives a comprehensive view of the bearing of 



