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EXPORTS OF WHEAT FLOUR. 



COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF AVERAGE EXPORT PRICES PER BARREL. 



These statistics are given merely for the purpose of fighting the 

 Free Traders on their own ground. We place no reliance in such 

 reductions of currency to gold, because the gold value of a paper 

 dollar, averaged for a year, for a month, or even for a single day, can 

 be obtained only by violating arithmetical rule. Of course, the out- 

 come of such a process must be false. Still, as Free Traders insist 

 on thus violating arithmetical rule, we are justified in showing that 

 even there do they find no support for their argument. Let it be 

 observed, therefore, that the currency prices reduced to gold are 

 higher than those under partial Free Trade ; and that, with the 

 exception of the year 1858, they are higher than the gold prices of 

 the Pacific Coast. Now, in view of all these exhibits, by what 

 right, or with what reason, can it be asserted that Western farmers 

 are repressively and injuriously acted upon by the policy of Pro- 

 tection to home industry? 



