Protection Against Superiority

The idea of the jirotectinniits Booms to be thut if this r.ouniry doea lint produce the best of all kinds of products, the pcople inust bo content wiih what they liave. It is s'ran e that such a liali-barbarous unenlightened idua should iud Amerioan advocates iu the niiieteenth eenuiry. The importance of h;iv ing imported citt'e from which to propagato inprocd stock ia thiá countrv is certa'nly understood by every intelligent (armer; buta heavy duty which amouni to almost prohibition is put by Congrtss upon such importatioo. A gentleman iu this county recently imported six shec-p, and had to my a duty of over $2ÜÜ in gold. Vury few of our stock raisers are wilüng or able to sust (lic such an expense, whioh adds over ten per cent to the legitímate cost of im ported stook. Now, what interest is benefi'ed by such a tariff on imported animáis ? It will probably be said that the stock-raiseis theinselves are beneflted because they are protected fiom foreign oompetition. Sufh an argument is plausible, Gut very ghallow; for it is a well-established faet that the staudard of our American cattlo and shcep cannot be maintained ■iihout the frequent introduction of foreign blood. Without it, our stock rap idly degeneratps nnd is liable to become disoasod. Therefore, it is easily uuderstood that a protectivo or probibitory duty on imported caltle is really and directiy an injury to the slock-raiser, to the farmer, and to the whole country. - However "protcc'.ion' is no moro absurd and outrageous when appüed to cattlebroeding than when opplied to a thousand other branches of industry in which all the people have more or less interest. - Mtddletotcn, (Conti.) Senlinel.