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SOPHISMS OF PROTECTION.Cold-water Supply TestDurham Or Screw Pipe Work Pipe And Fittings Gas Fitting Pipe And Fittings Threading Measuring And Testing Hot-water Heaters Instantaneous Coil And Storage Tanks. House Traps Fresh-air Connections Drum Traps And Non-syphoning Traps Installing Of French Or Sub-soil Drains Insulation Of Piping To Eliminate Conduction Radiation Freezing And Noise Laying Terra-cotta And Making Connections To Public Sewers. Water Connections Making And Care Of Wiping Cloths Mixtures Of Solders For Soldering Iron And Wiping Care Of Solders Melting Points Of Metals And Alloys More Preparing And Wiping Joints Pipe Threading Plumbing Codes Plumbing Fixtures And Trade Preparing And Wiping Joints Soil And Waste Pipes And Vents Tests Storm And Sanitary Drainage With Sewage Disposal The Use And Care Of The Soldering Iron Fluxes Making Different Soldering Joints Sophisms Of The ProtectionistsCapital And InterestCapital And Interest Spoliation And Law Supremacy By Labor The House The Plane The Sack Of Corn |
Obstructed Rivers Pleading For The ProhibitionistsSome years since, being at Madrid, I went to the meeting of the Cortes. The subject in discussion was a proposed treaty with Portugal, for improving the channel of the Douro. A member rose and said: If the Douro is made navigable, transportation must become cheaper, and Portuguese grain will come into formidable competition with our national labor. I vote against the project, unless ministers will agree to increase our tariff so as to re-establish the equilibrium. Three months after, I was in Lisbon, and the same question came before the Senate. A noble Hidalgo said: Mr. President, the project is absurd. You guard at great expense the banks of the Douro, to prevent the influx into Portugal of Spanish grain, and at the same time you now propose, at great expense, to facilitate such an event. There is in this a want of consistency in which I can have no part. Let the Douro descend to our Sons as we have received it from our Fathers. Next: A Negative Railroad Previous: Reciprocity Again
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