62/174 Looking at the people, we shall see them better fed, clothed and warmed. EDITOR:--I am a cloth manufacturer, and a protectionist. I confess that your article on _dearness_ and _cheapness_ has led me to reflect. It has something specious about it, and if well proven, would work my conversion." MY DEAR PROTECTIONIST:--We say that the end and aim of your restrictive measures is a wrongful one--_artificial dearness_. But we do not say that they always realize the hopes of those who initiate them. |