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March 6, 1879 issue

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The difficulty, to which one has often called attention of late, of finding out, by observation of the proceedings in Congress, what is a Republican and what a Democrat has not been by any means diminished by the course of the Congress which ended its existence on Tuesday. The demand for protection for native industry in France and Germany and even England, in all of which the doctrines of free-trade were supposed to have secured a firm footing during the last fifteen years, is interesting for the light it throws on the reasons which make protection popular in the strict sense of the term.

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POLITICAL parties; INDUSTRIES; FREE trade; PROTECTIONISM; UNITED States; GERMANY
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