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taking oft' of the duty on sugar to reduce the revenue, and 

 payment of bounty to Americans Planters, and removing 

 the tax on tobacco, and increasing the tariff on imported 

 agricultural products to stimulate increased production in 

 this country, thus employing more home labor, without 

 increased cost to the consumer. 



Sidney C. Bancroft declared that he was not for free 

 trade but tariff reform, a tariff for revenue only. He 

 desired all raw material admitted free, and took issue 

 with Mr. Ware that " free trade " and " tariff reform " 

 were synonymous terms. He also took issue with other 

 points of Mr. Ware's address. 



A motion, by Rev. O. S. Butler of Georgetown, limit- 

 ing the time of each speaker to fifteen minutes, was car- 

 ried. 



Rev. C. W. Luck of Topsfleld, was in favor of free 

 trade. Considered it a sign of weakness that Americans 

 were not willing to enter into competition with our Eng- 

 lish brethren. If it was to continue, the best protection 

 would be to build a Chinese wall around the United 

 States and keep all foreigners out. He opposed freeino- 

 tobacco, and asserted there was as much poverty and des- 

 titution, in proportion, in New York as in London. 



George W. Russell of West Newbury, made remarks 

 that showed that he had given the tariff question, as to 

 effects upon the laboring man, much thought. He uro-ed 

 that all our happiness and success depended upon the 

 treatment of labor. He should be surprised if anyone 

 present and looking at such a gathering of Essex County 

 farmers, after looking at a similar gathering of English 

 farmers, could vote for free trade. He showed that it was 

 home competition that lowered the price of our products. 

 The duty on any article had nothing to do with it. The 

 tariff was not a tax. The imports last year were 

 $200,000,000 and the exports $240,000,000. 



.lames .1. II. Gregory of Marblehead, was surprised, he 

 said, that the advocates of free trade or tariff reform had 

 given them no answering arguments, nothing but irony 



