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trade side of the tariff question is presented 

 by Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, and calls for 

 no special comment, as he presents only the 

 well-known considerations in favor of indus- 

 trial freedom. His opponent, Prof. Gunton, 

 however, attempts to defend protection on 

 philosophic grounds and erect it into a per- 

 manent system instead of leaving it in the 

 position of a temporary expedient, applicable 

 only to the infancy of industries. He re- 

 gards protection a means of maintaining the 

 wage level of a country, by forcing a com- 

 peting country to pay in duties an amount 

 which will put it on the same basis as the 

 country of higher wages. The tariff can in 

 justice therefore be only sufficient to cover the 

 difference in wages of the competing coun- 

 tries a condition, it need hardly be said, 

 that would not suit our tariff beneficiaries 

 at all. Dr. Lewis G. Janes contributes a 

 thoughtful paper upon the problem of city 

 government, which is concerned mainly with 

 pointing out the difficulties of the problem 

 rather than with suggestions as to the solu- 

 tion. He insists, however, that the proper 

 form of city government must be a matter of 

 growth, shaped and determined by our po- 

 litical life, and that the example of foreign 

 cities can be of but little use in helping us 

 to solve the problem of American city gov- 

 ernment. Other essays of interest are Mr. 

 John A. Taylor's defense of the independent 

 in politics, Prof. Le Conte's discussion of the 

 race problem hi the South, the monetary 

 problem by William Potts, and representa- 

 tive government by Edwin D. Mead. 



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