How Protection Protects

Tho summor tourist who goos out to Shirley Point, nour Boston, to purtuke of Taft'a oelobrated fish-dinncrs, will not fuil to observo a oortain extensivo ruin thure sitúate. It is a group of buildings, coniprising, within a lofty inclosure, a set of copper-smelting works, and a long row of dwellings and work-shops ; in tact, a village of apparently 200 or 300 inhabitante, for whoae lubor tho works, and for whoso lodgraent the dwellings, h id been elaboratèly and systematieally construeted. But not a single soul now tenante shop, factory, or dwolling. All is ís dosorttxl as Goldamith's " Auburn." Tho east wind whistles through the uaglazed windows of the cottages, bats flifc through the doors, and owl.s hoot dismally in the deserted belfry of the factory. And as the " loveliost villago of tho plaiu" was dopopulatod by the opprcssion of a tymnmc tl monarch, so this villago by the sea hus been despoiled tln-ough the workinga of a law of Congress pussed to " prottsjt Amerioaa Industry." In plain words, tho ruin of Shirley Point is a mouraful monument of tho present taritï. A few years io, the villago at Shirley Point was doiug a thriving Lusint'ss smelting copper ores, and tho vill wore living comfortably off the wages of the men emplpyed in the works, wlien down swoopod Chandlar, ot' Mi.'.lugan, t!i iiupion of Amorioan industry, and pushect tiirough Congress a new tiriff on copper ores. For one of the Resulta of which, and a fair and cogent illustration of how Protoction protects, go to Shirley