They are those "conducting planting or farming business. or preparing for market products of the soil." It appears to me that the provisions of the bill have gone as far for protecting agriculture as it ought to go in justice to other occupations. for ithas provided an exemption for those corporations which buy and sell raw or unmanufactured domestic agricultural products. There was a certain equity in that provision in view of the fact that in the very nature of the case. whatever might be the desire of lawmakers. the agricultural products of this country can not share in the benefits of a protective tariff. They are obliged to find their market in foreign countries. and the price here is largely regulated by the prices which they must find there in competition with the pauper labor of other countries of which we have heard so much. As they can not share in any degree of protection which is granted by the customs tax. it was thought that those who were dealing with the mere raw product might perhaps properly be exempt. For myself.
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