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foreign. It is so with salt. You pay a dollar a bushel for 

 coarse salt to salt jour sheep, when without the tariff-tax you 

 could buy it for fifty cents easy. But only about half of this 

 extra fifty cents goes to the government ; the other half goes 

 mainly to the Onondaga Salt Co. of Syracuse, N. Y., at whose 

 instance the salt duty was put on. So of iron, steel, lumber, 

 and other things too numerous to mention. Protection and 

 revenue are incompatible. Where protection begins, there 

 revenue begins to diminish ; where protection ends, there reve- 

 nue has ceased. On the other hand, revenue is largest where 

 protection is wholly eliminated. 



Let no one say that free traders are hostile to manufacturers. 

 They are better friends to manufacturers than the manufactur- 

 ers are to themselves, so far as the latter are protectionists. 

 The manufacturers of Berkshire County to-day are paying a 

 good deal more "protection" than they get. They would be 

 relieved and benefited if protection were abolished to-morrow. 

 So should we all, especially the farmers. Then let us abolish 

 it. Abolished it will be, either with our help, or in spite of our 

 withholding it. 



