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funny and, what Í8 more, he generally manages to express a good deal of truth in the form of a joke. Not long ago he engaged in a tari ff debate with Congressman Springer. The latter indulged in a tirade aainst the beneficiarles of the tariff system and singled out Mr. Carnegie for the burden of hia vituperations. He said that in his study of the New Testament he had found but one parallel to this wealthy Scotchman; that his name was Dives, and that he was in heil, where he ought to be. Horr replied : " I have heard of Dives before. I have learned for the first time, however, to-day, that he made his nioney under the Morrill tariff bill passed by the United States Congress in 1861. Springer intimates that he did, and I am ready to admit that he can come as near proving that as any other proposition he has made here to-day. But on one proposition I agree with Brother Springer. Dives, though he may have been surrounded by democrats, was certainly no democrat himself- for you recollect, according to the record, he called for water, and that is something no demoerat was ever known to do." Wt.ereat the spectators rolled upon the ground with laughter. The free-tradera base their argumenta, for the most part, on the discarded dogma of laitsez faire. They believe that the government should in no wise interfere with the industries of a country. This policy has been put in practiceand itha8alwaysfailed,because natural conditions are sueh that, unless government interferes, the weak must always yield to the strong. American manufacturera, because dependent upon high-priced labor and raw material, are relatively weak. English manufacturers, benefited by more advantageouB circumstances, are relatively strong. The free-trader, who believes in the survival of the flttest or, in other words, the triumph of the strong, is quite willing to withdraw protection from American industries. He says they ought to perish because they are weak. He advocates, in ehort, a policy which is no only unpatriotic but positively brutal. It is a policy which, if carried into other line would cause the aboliüon of the postoffice system, do away with the control of weights and nieasures, trust the coinage 01 money to private enterpriees, and abolish all control of railways and corporations. Once adopt free-trade and the extremists would undoubtedly attempt to carry out the policy of laissez-faire to its logica conclusions. That would mean industria anarchy, and probably political and social anarchy as well. Are the people of this nation ready to try the eiperi ment?