Do not states and territories send agents abroad to aid and abet foreign labor in its purpose to fill up the supply of labor in our own market? Do not the protectionist employers themselves keep their agents in every part of Europe to help swell the throng of those coming to our shores, and, in case of demand for higher wages, to take the place of the discontented? Strange ! Yet it is all true, every word of it, and the organs of the protectionists gloat over the increasing supply of the labor in our markets. The commodity whioh the laborer has to sell is not protected. All that Government does is to help inorease its supply and thus reduce its price. v But then it nutt be that Government is trying to inorease the supply of those things whioh working men want in exchange for their commodity, labor t God forbid I It is taxing them and rendering them scarce 1 It looks as if Government were working against , "labor, doesn't it. A fanny world isn't it? No doubt for party purposes it was an immense improvement. It* proceeded upon the hypothesis that the American em ployer must pay more than his. European competitor 'for labor, and that difference must be made np to him by a tax on foreign competitors ; some,- indeed, with a nioe air of accuracy claiming it as a scientific prin ciple that duties should be precisely such. in every instance as to equal the difference , in cost of labor. It is assumed that if duties fall; American labor must also fall in price, and, like European labor, become pauper labor. One manifest superiority in this new plea is tkat it does not advocate duties as something, temporary, but as somethingr to endure as long' as American labor is "dear " and foreign labor is "oheap." Another is the benevolence wrapped up in it ; and not merely benevolence. It is I»enev«lenoe of a superior and unique: sort! Benevolence often means sacrifice on the part of him who exercises itTas when I wear an old coat that I may help to educate the orphan child of an old friend. Not so the benevolence of the protective JurifE, for it is warranted never to take a penny from the. pookets of its most devoted adherents. 