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But theprotectionist tells thefarmer that "we can furnish you a home market ior your products. Do you not see.. he says. "that the more men that are engaged in manufacturing the more mouths there will be to feed. and the more money they earn the more money they will have to pay you for your products." This is the worst kind of sophistry. The terms "home market" and "pauper labor of Europe" are synonymous terms . that is. they mean about the same thing.. The former is used to deceive the farmer and the latter the workingman. In fact they mean nothing. but they have both rendered excellent service in terrifying the farmer of the West and the laborer of the East. Let us look at this absurdity for a single moment If you would make onethird more manufacturers I ask how this would make more mouths to feed. If the number of mechanics are to be increased then they must be taken from some other calling. the farm for example. unless you bring in the pauper labor of Europe. Then to change a farmer to a mechanic it is hard to conceive how he would eat any less. It is supposed that a farmer should consume as much as any other man. and the mere change could make no difference.