78 OUR MANUFACTURES GOING ABROAD. 



people, have been stimulated into the utmost activity under the 

 fostering influences of our Protective system, so that we are 

 wresting away from our formidable rival, England, one market 

 after another, and are even threatening her supremacy upon her 

 own soil. 



We are falsely told that " with a strictly revenue tariff'' our 

 manufacturers would be enabled "to obtain control of nearly 

 every market in the Western Hemisphere." Such is not the voice 

 of experience. Every attempt we have made to develop our in- 

 dustries under that kind of tariff has ended in an illumination of 

 suffering, and forced a return to the Protective policy. Instead of 

 acquiring more and new markets, we began rapidly to lose control 

 of our own at home. In urging upon us a reciprocity treaty and a 

 tariff for revenue only, Great Britain is doing her utmost to re- 

 gain her lost ground in this country. 



