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This great and alarming decline is under system
of protective duties. At the same moment the
woollen manufactures of the continent are ncrcas-
iap even IN a greater proportion. Prusslan OH
cial return that the manufactures OF wool IN
that country were onc-thrd greater in 1910 than IN
1888


In France exports of woolcn IN 1888 fi5,61O0


lSi0 f6l,63iuOJ
showing that in the same period in which the
English export OF wooens fell OFT one half those OF
France dolbled Does this look like English pros
perty under the protective system The Prussian
and German manufacturers being IN the midst oi
their wool growing countries have their saw mate
rial at small expense and without taxation, anu lhe
French have bounty Of 9 per cent. on the ex-
nortation of woollens made from wool of their own
growth while the English have 20 pay export duty
land carrilge, inland navigation, and freight, be-
sides an import duty. The export duty is to be re-
pealed, AMI the argument deduced from all the pre-
misses given above is, that the import duty ought tC
be repealed likewise, if England is to be enabled tc
compete With foreigners.