« THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



merchant marine, and having written and 

 talked on that subject for the last fifteen 

 years, I would like to submit a few ideas on 

 the subject. 



The body politic and the human body are 

 in some respects alike. If any part becomes 

 atrophied or vice versa and circulation is 

 not equal, suffering is bound to come.. Al- 

 though I am a loyal Republican, I believe 

 the Republican party has made a terrible 

 blunder, either through ignorance or self- 

 ishness of its men in office in allowing the 

 once grand and numerous American mer- 

 chant shipping to be swept from the face of 

 the seas and on a parallel with the ships, 

 they have committed just such a terrible 

 blunder in not putting an export bounty on 

 wheat. The two are about the only indus- 

 tries that have not been helped by the tar- 

 iff; in fact, the tariff has swept the ships 

 out of existence and reduced the American 

 wheat raiser to abject slavery and acute 

 mental suffering in many instances, for he 

 has seen his farm slip from his own and his 

 posterity's hands to fall into the hands of 

 the hard-working classes of Europe. The 

 pioneer merchant has shared the same fate 

 in many instances, and all this has happened 

 on the most fertile soil the world knows. 



ENGLAND HAS GOT IT BACK 



After the Civil War England had to pay 

 the United States $15,000,000 for allowing 



