It is not true that an import duty equalizes the conditions of production.

These remain after the imposition of the duty just as they were before.

The most that the law can do is to equalize the _conditions of sale_.

If it should be said that I am playing upon words, I retort the accusation upon my adversaries.

It is for them to prove that _production_ and _sale_ are synonymous terms, which if they cannot do, I have a right to accuse them, if not of playing upon words, at least of confounding them.
Let me be permitted to exemplify my idea.
Suppose that several Parisian speculators should determine to devote themselves to the production of oranges.