In 160i Great Britain took from us only 43 per cent. of tIme cotton she iuifi iiiactntard. and it is only since cotton has eleapenled to a point when there is but little profit in raising it that she takes 74 per cent. of it. froiimus. So with breadstaffs. There are in the Dominion of Canada vast. almost boundless. tracts of the finest and most productive wheat lands in the world. estimated at 200.000.000 acres. untouched by the plowshare. through which lritish capital and enterprise are coustructing railroads and into which the same "agencics are pouring immigration fbr the purpose of creating competition with the grainields of our great Northwest. France discrimninates heavily against the United States in retaliation for her exclusiou fron our markets. and the expediency of imposing a tariffl duty on the admission of our agricultural products is being .seriously discussed there. as the debates in her legislative body. some of which I have before me. show. so that protection for American uantisfiettnres against European competition means a premium for toteigu competition with American farmers. for a destruction of the foreign market for American agricultural products. in order to secure to American manufacturing monopolists the home market for their wares with a bounty of 45 per cent. added to their price. On tlmo opposite extrenm from Great Britain. iut the matter of mauufaeturing antI commeircial acti vit y and unobstructed free trade. is our nerst. nighbor.
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