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Sophisms of the Protectionists

PART II
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The deficit occasioned in the Treasury by those | goods _which do not enter_ is made up by taxes | on our salt.

| The other reports, with which I will not trouble the reader, told the same story.

Gardeners, carpenters, shoemakers, boatmen, all complained of the same grievances.
I am sorry there were no day laborers in our association.

Their report would certainly have been exceedingly instructive.

But, unfortunately, the poor laborers of our province, all _protected_ as they are, have not a cent, and, after having taken care of their cattle, cannot go themselves to the _Mutual Aid Society_.


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