36 not pledge himself, if elected, to propose, or at least to vote for. a reduction of five per cent, every successive yea?, on the import duties, till the whole are abolished!” Why is England so interested in us ? She will never import from us more grain than she needs. We shall have 1,0 pay for excess of imports in coin. Our land will be drained of specie, and we shall lie coiled up in this free trade parlor, “And ne’er come out again.” FARMERS ARE PROTECTED. “Farmers have no protection,” say the free traders. This is not true. The duty on wheat is twenty cents a bushel, corn ten cents, and potatoes fifteen cents. It has been predicted that in less than ten years, the wheat grown in India, with labor at ten cents a day, will be sold so cheaply here that farmers, instead of leaning toward free trade, will ask for more protection. Only one-third of India is yet cultivated, and the fields of Russia are almost unlimited. Hon. William McKinley, one of our ablest tariff men, well asks, “Where, then, is the farmer to find his market? He must find his market at home; and how is he going to get it at home? Why, only by one method—manufactures must be fostered and grow, and not be diminished.” Agricultural products are to-day six per cent, higher than before the war, while manufactured goods are thirty per cent, lower. MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE ESSENTIAL TO EACH OTHER. Wherever these are found together, both are proportionately aided. Land in California is worth three times as much per acre in the manufacturing counties as in the agricultural. In the one manufacturing county of Delaware, land is $78.87 per acre, and in the other two counties, both agricultural, only $21.56 per acre. In West Virginia, manufacturing counties, $48; in agricultural, $12. Kentucky, manufacturing, $36; agricultural, $12. In Minnesota, Connecticut, and elsewhere, land in the manufacturing counties is worth double the other. In Georgia, the seven manufacturing counties annually produce $19,000,000, while the remaining 137 non-manufacturing counties produce two million, dollars less. Colorado has thirty-one counties; the two manufacturing counties produce $t0,000,000; the other twenty-nine, only one-third as much. From these facts it appears that wealth only is possible when both manufactures and agriculture go hand in hand. And yet our English-
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