“A MOVEMENT ON FOOT,” Any chiropodist’s.

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PROTECTION PROTECTED.

A Western editor has issued a conundrum in a volume with the title Does Protection Protect? and undertakes to prove by statistics that answer is No.  These Western people are in the habit, we know, of bragging a good deal of their exploits, and so the writer referred to says he used to think the answer to his conundrum was Yes, but investigation has shown him he was wrong.  What business has he to investigate it?  There is Mr. GREELEY, he says the answer is YES!! and does any one suppose that he ever investigated it, or could so investigate any subject as to change his opinion about it?  Of course not.

Then there is H.C.  CAREY, who used to say, when he was interested in statistics, that the answer was No; but now that he is more interested in mining, he says the answer is Yes.  Could there be any better proof that the Western man is wrong?

Besides, has not Mr. KELLEY proved a thousand times that protection does protect his constituents, and that by making everybody pay dearer for iron, the money goes where, according to the true laws of trade, it ought to go—­into the pockets of the mine-owners?  Can it be possible that the castor-oil man, the thread man, the salt man, the steel man, and all the others of this kind, don’t know that protection protects them, and that they are the important persons in the country?

If this freedom of inquiry is allowed much longer, protection itself will have to be protected.  Let that Western editor prosecute his studies further, until he becomes convinced that Americans are naturally a lazy, idle, and shiftless people, and never would, or could, engage in any industry unless they were so protected in it that it can be made as flourishing as ship-building, machine-shops, and manufactures of all kinds are now.  Or, if he thinks that would take too much time, let him join some snug little ring, if he can find such a vacancy, and enjoy the reflection, when Republican orators talk of the glorious results of protection to American industry, that he is one of the glorious results.

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For Sawyers.

What kind of pine is the most difficult to saw into lumber?  The
Porcupine.

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