G. W. KRAMER, Editor.
M’CRORY,
ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1901.
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VOL. I.—NO. 22.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AN1) POLITICAL.
Consul-General Gudger, at Panama,
informed the state department, un
der date of the 12th, that there had
been no change in the political situ
ation on the isthmus so far as lie
could observe since his last report.
On the 22d 11. T. lloss, a music
teacher, and his wife, aged and penni
less, were asphyxiated by gas in their
room in San Francisco.
On the 22d Chief Justice George
Burton, of the court of appeals, of
Toronto, Ont., died in that city, aged
82 years.
On the 22d John W. Decamp, who
was terribly burned while searching
in his blazing home, in Seattle, Wash.,
for a servant whom he supposed to be
imprisoned in her room, died of his
injuries. Decamp was a well-known
commission man of Seattle, formerly
in the same business in St. Paul, Minn.
Marquis Ito, of Japan, has aban
doned his proposed American tour.
On the 23d President Johnson ol
the American Baseball league ex
pelled Shortstop Shugart, of Chicago
for assaulting Umpire Haskell at
Washington. Mr. Johnson said:1 ‘Each
player of the American league who in
thf> future* kIiijtr nn limrnrf* on the
ball field will be expelled from the
league. That is final.”
On the. 2.'id James W. Lyall, aged 63,
a wealthy manufacturer of cotton
goods, was found dead in the bath
tub at his home in New York city,
The gas was turned on. It is be
lieved he was overcome with weak
ness and fell, striking the gas jet
with his arm, turning' it on.
On the 2-ld J. A. Blodt, formerly
secretary of the Guarantee Savings
and Loan Co., of Cleveland, O., wo*
bound over to the grand jury on 11k
charge of embezzling funds of that
concern.
MI SC K LJL A N EO US.
A pro-Armenian sheet, issued In
i’aris, asserts that the Turks have
been looting and murdering in the
Sasesoun district since the beginning
of July, and that several Armenian
villages have been wiped out.
On the 22d the molders in the Mc
Donald pump factory at Dubuque, la.,
struck for a ten-per-cent, advance in
wages. Vice President Keough of the
International Molders’ union had a
conference with the company, and
the latter refused to recognize the
union or treat with the men as mem
bers of it.
The directors of the Austro-Hun
garian bank have decided to begin the
introduction of gold currency by a
small issue of 20-kroncr gold pieces
The issue will be merely experiment
al, in order to accustom the public to
the circulation of gold. The present
goneration in Austro-Hungary lias
never seen gold in circulation, and it
is feared it will be hoarded by cer
tain classes of the population. If,
however, the issues proves successful,
a larger one will be made.
On the 22d the secretary of the
treasury puchased short-term bonds
as follows: $7,000 threes, at 108.1902;
$1,400 fours, at 1111.2105; $500 fives, at
108.1007.
New York financial men named in
connection with the formation of a
world-wide copper combination deny
all knowledge of such a combination.
They say that it would be impossible
to harmonize and organize all the
conflicting interests in copper, and
that nobody is trying to do so.
On the 22d the work of reconstruct
ing the American line steamer Phila
delphia- (formerly the Paris), having
been completed at Belfast, the vessel
sailed for Southampton, from which
port she will sail for New York on
the 31st,.
A Simla (India) dispatch to the
London Daily Mail says that 13 inches
of rain fell there during the three
days ended on the 22d.
“Apparently there is a movement
on foot on the part of Great Britain,
Japan and the United States,” says a
dispatch to the London Morning Post,
from Che Foo, dated the 22d, “to
force llussia to evacuate Niuh
Chwang.”
On the 23d the gunboat Machias,
which is on her way to Colon, arrived
at Kingston, Jamaica,
On the 23d B. G. Dun & Co. report
ed: “Failures for the week number
205 in the United States, against 171
last year, and 35 in Caifkda, against
29 last year.”
On the 23d, because two union beef
butchers, employed by the Cudahy
packing house, at Armordale, Kas.,
were discharged, V25 butchers struck,
causing that department to be shut
down. The strikers allege that- the
men were discharged without cause.
The company superintendent says it
was following out a plan to reduce
the force in all departments.
The Cpcatenated Order of Hoo Hoo
will meet at Norfolk, Va., in tenth
annual session on Sex>tcmbcr 9. After
adjournment the membern will pro
ceed to Buffalo, N. Y., where they
will participate in the festivities of
Lumbermen’s week at the Pan-Amer
ican exposition.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $150,0(10,000 gold reserve in the di
vision of redemption, issued on the
20d showed: Available cash balance,
$176,488,107. Gold, $104,891,143.
On the 23d the deputies supporting
the Brazilian administration were at
tacked by a mob on leaving the legis
lative chamber. One deputy was in
jured, and several arrests were made.
Other disturbances were imminent.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
In the city of Manila, there are now
less than one thousand effective sol
diers, and it has been decided to in
crease this number by four companies
of infantry. The official reason given
for the increase is that the guard
duty is too heavy for the present
force. As a matter of fact, however,
there is a feeling that, although there
is no apparent uprising in the future
such as is always possible among the
Malays, it would be better to have a
sufficient body of troops available.
A telegram from Charlottesville, Va.,
announces the death, on the 24th, of
Miss Maude Coleman Woodsin that city.
Miss Woods was pronounced the most
beautiful woman in America by a
committee from the Pan-American ex
position, and her profile adorns all of
Ilte medals issued by the board of
awards.
Word was received in Manila, on the
25th, that the insurgents Col. Loreei,
with 17 officers and 13 men, had sur
rendered to Capt. Brown, of the
.Fourth infantry, at Talisay. The sur
render of numerous other smaller
contingents brought the total to more
than one hundred for the week.
“Japan has lodged a protest at
Washington,” says a dispatch to the
London Times from Tokio, dated the
23d, “against the system of medical
inspection at Hawaii, declaring that
this is incompatible with friendly in
tercourse between the two peoples.”
Henry L. Wilson, United States min
ister to Chile, on the 25th, formally
denied the report that he would soon
retire and devote his time to com
merce, representing several American
firms. The papers of Santiago dc
Chile publish his denial.
1'rinee Chun, brother of the em
peror of China, and the members of
the Chinese mission now on the way
to Berlin to apologize for the murder
of Baron Von Ketteler, German min
ister in Pekin, arrived at Basel, Switz
erland, on the 25th.
The French sugar bounties having
occasioned a deficit of 14,000,000
francs, the minister of finance, M.
Caillaux, has issued a decree reducing
them by 55 per cent, with a view of
covering the deficit.
The body of Albert Valincourte, one
of the victims of the crib No. 3 dis
aster, at Cleveland, O., was recovered,
on the 25ih, by divers. The body was
found in the air shaft 80 feet below
the surface.
Secretary Boot, on the 26th, re
ceived a letter from the chairman of
the committee on state and territor
ial exhibits of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, saying that the exposition
desired to make an exhibit of the re
sources and products or the Philip
pines and Cuba. The letter was re
ferred to the division of insular af
fairs, which will take the necessary
steps to assist the exposition in pro
curing1 the exhibits asked.
Gov. Durbin of Indiana will im
peach sheriffs who neglect to stop
prize fights. Gov. Durbin’s new tack
is not to talk militia, but to exercise
his executive power through sheriffs.
If he finds they wilfully fail to do
their duty it is understood to be his
scheme to have the attorney general
bring impeachment proceedings to re
lieve them from office.
Li Hung Chang, on the 2Gth, in
formed the ministers at Pekin that
the bearer of the edicts necessary to
the signing of the settlement protocol
by the Chinese plenipotentiaries, who
was on his way from Kian-Fu, had
been delayed by Hoods, but that it was
anticipated he would reach Pekin
shortly.
The body of Britton H. Tabor, a
lawyer of New York city, was found
in the North river on the 20th. Mr.
Tabor had a reputation as a keen trial
lawyer. He was also a close student
of the Bible, and had written a de
fense of Christianity and the Bible,
entitled, “The Guiding Star of Human
ity.”
The navy'department is to send an
other recruiting party to Kansas City,
Mo., in October to enlist young men
for service in the navy. A party, sev
eral months ago, obtained more re
cruits in that city in the same length
of time, than at any of the half dozen
cities touched by the naval officers.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, on the 26th, per steam
er Southwalk, from Antwerp, was
Gen. A. llrynk, of the Kussian army,
who will attend the trial trip of the
llissian battleship lletvisan, at Phila
delphia. Gen. Moeller accompanied
Gen. Brynk.
The formal charges preferred by
members of the Honolulu bar against
Judge Humphreys, who is now in this
country, were received at the depart
ment of justice, in Washington, on the
26th, and forwarded at once to Attor
ney-General Knox, at Pittsburg.
[t Has Assumed a More Serious As
pect Since the Concentration
On the Isthmus.
AGGRESSIVE ACTION IS LOOKED FOR
A Xoticenble Feature Is tlie Actual
and Moral Support tlie liberals
Are Receiving? From Vene/.uelu,
Ecuador and Nicaragua—Colom
bia in Flnnneial Straits.
Colon, Colombia, Aug. 24, via King's
ten, Jamaica, Aug. 2fi.—The censor
ship prevents the transmission of po
litical news or news unfavorable to
the government.
The revolt of the liberal Colombian
rebels, now two. years old, lately as
sumed a more serious aspect by the
liberals concentrating on the isthmus.
It is believed they are contemplating
aggressive action. Consequently, un
easiness prevails at Panama, the lib
eral objective, which was nearly cap'
tured a year ago. It is not believed
the rebels will molest the railroad or
interrupt traffic. The recent rebel
raids along the railroad amounted to
bloodless raiding and the robbery of
Chinese storekeepers, which the pres
ence of a few government troops
stopped. There is a report that the
government is bringing troops to pro
tect the isthmus. This will be diffi
cult, without exposing to rebel at
tacks the points whence they arc
taken. The area of the revolt is ex
tensive.
A Noticrnlilc Feature.
A noticeable, distinguishing feature
of the revolution is the actual, moral
support the liberals are receiving
from Venezuela, Ecuador and Nica
ragua, in which countries liberal gov
ernments prevail. Colombia’s govern
ment is not popularwithrevolutionary
elements in the same countries. Th<
situation can be likened to a disrupted
federation, composed of Venezuela.,
Ecuador, Colombia and Nicaragua, in
which liberal and conservative parti
sans are helping each other and in
triguing together. But, being sepa
rate nations, the political and armed
intrigues threaten international trou
ble.
Conservative Revolt In Venesiteln.
It is reported that the conservative
revolt in Venezuela against President
Castro is reciving active support
from the Colombian conservatives.
Nicaragua’s threatened revolution
will probably be similarly aided on
the occasion arising. The conditions
give ground for the reports of actual
or threatened international complica
tions between the countries men
tioned, in which the liberals are gen
erally opposed to Colombia’s conserv
ative administration, whose proplie
sit'd downfall is accompanied by talK
of a federation or consolidation of
some or all of the countries men
tioned, under the idea of a “Grand
Colombia.”
The Colombian government is in
straits, financially, at present.
MADE PRISONERjfBY BOERS.
Three British Olllccrs and Sixty
Four Men Surrounded and
Captured by Boers.
London, Aug. 27.—A dispatch from
Lord Kitchener, dated from Pretoria,
Monday, says.
“Three officers and 65 men who
were sent north of Ladybrand (Or
ange Liver colony), on the right oi
KUiot’s columns, were surrounded or
unfavorable ground and captured by
a superior force August 22. One man
was killed and four wounded. 'The
prisoners were released. Am holding
an inquiry.
“Have received a long letter from
Steyn containing an argumentivc
statement of the Poor case, and say
ing he will continue to tight; also a
short letter from Dewet to the same
n fleet.
“Hotha writes acknowledging the
receipt of my proclamation, and pro
testing against it, and stating that
the Doers intend to go on fighting. On
the other hand, the surenders, lately",
have increased considerably'.”
THEY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN.
Incalculable Benctitn Will Follow
tlic Ilcntlis of the Mosquito In
fected Fever Patients.
New York, Aug. 27.—Dr. Doty, dis
missing the death in Havana of Miss
Clara Haas, reiterated his recently
expressed opinion that the results
achieved fully warranted the experi
ments that are being carried on in
Cuba.
“We must not look simply at the
tenths of the three persons in Hn
rana,” said Dr. Doty', “we must con
sider also the incalculable number of
ives that will be saved by this ab
solute proof that mosquitos carry
yellow fever.”
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Letter From Scott County.
Gov. Davis has received a letter
from Vice-President Bevils, of the
Scott county World’s fair board, from
which the following is taken: “We
are already gathering exhibits. We
are excavating a walnut stump for
the show (the tree having already
been shipped to Germany), that meas
ures 8 feet in diameter and will weigh
about four thousand pounds. One of
our peaches weighs 23 ounces, a pear
goes to 24 ounces, while we have an
apple that will astonish the world. It
weighs 27 ounces. We will be able to
show veins of coal 12 feet and 5 inch
es in thickness and single blocks of
black diamond that will weigh several
tons.”
Prisoner Killed Ills Captor.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Williams, ac
companied by Yal Neely, left Marion
for Gilmore, Crittenden county, and
arrested Jeff Blythe on the charge of
killing a negro. While on the train
cn route to Marion, Blythe made a
desperate attempt to kill his captors
ciuu carajjc, lit* Jinng iwife at
The prisoner was overpowered and
jailed at Marion. Blythe was after
ward released on bond. Immediately
after leaving’ the courtroom he met
Williams. Blythe pulled a gun and
shot Williams through the heart.
Malvern Will Drill for Oil.
Pennsylvania and Ohio parties have
been prospecting in the country
around Malvern for oil, and after
careful experiments concluded that
the indications are sufficient to war
rant the drilling of ft well. A com
pany has been organized at Malvern
with sufficient capital to make a
thorough! investigation. Work will
begin as soon as the necessary equip
ment can be secured.
Italians Incensed Over Harder.
Near Ashdown, north of Texar
kana, an Italian cut an American. A
crowd went to the tie camp, where
1he Italian had sought refuge, and or
I tiered them to surrender the man who
• did the cutting. One of the Ameri
| cans fired a shot from a rifle, the 1ml
i let striking Joseph Gingotti, aged 26,
-killing lilm instantly. There are
many Italians around Ashdown, and
they are greatly incensed.
K ill ink Held l njnsliflnlile.
Coroner McGaughy, of Jefferson
county, held an inquest over the re
mains of Dave Roberts, who was
killed at Altheimer, near Pine Bluff,
by his brother, Monroe Roberts, and
returned a verdict to the effect that
the killing was not justifiable, and
holding Monroe Roberts on a charge
of murder. Both men were well
known farmers.
Mnrder at Portland.
W. J. Prewitt, of Morrell. Asliley
sounty, alleged to have been impli
cated in the murder of George Phil
lips, at Parkdale, last December, was
found dead on theYailroad track near
Portland, lie had evidently been mur
dered, and the body thrown on the
track, as there was a gunshot wound
in the head.
Abandon Drilling for Oil.
After several months’ work the
drill of the Choctaw Oil Co., at Mans
field, Sebastian county, has been
stopped, the stockholders having
come to the conclusion that there
was nothing to be gained by further
drilling. The well had reached a
depth of 2,400 feet.
Fruit and Agricultural Fair.
The Benton and Washington coun
ty fruit and agricultural fair was
held at Siloam Springs and was n
complete success. Although that, sec
tion has just passed through a severe
drought, it was the judgment of the
people that- the fruit exhibits sur
passed by far any pervious ones.
Resulted in a Hung Jury.
Officers made a raid on the Jose_\
Ward house, at Hope, seizing some
whisky and beer which, it was al
leged, had been ordered for individu
als. A trial of the case before Squire
Wallis resulted in a hung jury.
Failure of air brakes resulted in a
collision, at Hoxie, between trains on
the Kansas City & Fort Scott and
Iron Mountain railways. Thirteen
cars were ditched and one engine was
wrecked.
Ray Stahl died at the family home,
at Fort Smith, of typhoid malaria.
The deceased was 20 years of age and
was very popular, being a loader in
the younger society element of the
town.
Shooting nt Eureka Springs.
James Kizer was shot to death, at
Eureka Springs, by Ur. L. U. Fuller
Ur. Fuller was assaulted by Kizer,
who felled him with a blow and then,
it is said, shot him.
Girl Swallowed Chloroform.
While in a fit of anger, Etta Moore,
aged 15, swallowed contents of a
bottle of chloroform, at Hot Springs,
Her life was saved by- t]>6 use of tha
stomach pump, .
Wreck nt Hoxie
Tlcnth of Ray Stnlil
POLICIES OF REPUBLICANS.
Prosperity Has Not Always Come Un
der That Party’s Dom
ination.
It is a standing' argument of the re
publican spellbinder and republican
newspaper that when their party is
in control ihe country is prosperous,
while disaster always follows in the
wake of a national democratic victory,
says the Washington Times. The
great objection to this argument is
that it is not true. It is a claim that
vv—11 not bear scrutiny in the light cf
the country’s past history. There have
been some exceedingly favorable con
ditions in the United States with the
republican party in absolute control
of national affairs. The panic of 1873
came with the republican power at its
height, and republican policies in full
force. There was not even a remote
prospect of any change. Gen. Grant
had just been reelected and had nearly
a full term to serve. And j'et the finan
cial storm swent the countrv like a
tornado, and there never was a com
plete recovery until considerably more
than a score of years had passed.
There was another smaller panic in
1881-82, and the whole period between
1873 and 1893 was one of very general
depression, subject only to temporary
and spasmodic revivals. This is a mat
ter of economic history, and the cause
of the tnonbles has been made the
subject of the most exhaustive investi
gations on both sides of the Atlantic.
During all of this period the policy of
the country was exclusively republic
an, for the democrats never controlled
both houses of congress and the presi
dency at the same time, and conse
quently were unable to place a demo
cr.Tfic measure upon the national stat
ute books.
The panic of 1893 likewise came with
every vestige of our economic legisla
tion of republican enactment. The
only democratic measure we have had
since the civil war was the Wilson
tariff, and this was not enacted until
about 15 months after the financial
storm broke. The great moneyed in
terests of the country insisted that the
panic was caused by the Sherman law,
a distinctively republican measure, and
during the debate on the repeal bill
Senator Sherman declared in the sen
ate that if the law were repealed (that
is, the purchase clause of it) prosper
ity would return in ten days. The re
peal bill passed, but prosperity did not
return in ten days, or in ten months,
or in five years. And when the cam
paign came on in 1896, forgetting their
former declarations, the republican
leaders asserted that the continued
hard times were owing partly to the
Wilson tariff, and partly to the silver
agitation; but they conveniently omit
ted to explain what caused the trou
ble before the Wilson law was enacted
and before the silver agitation began.
The panic of 1S93 was, in fact, a
forced one, brought on by President
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle, in
collusion with the \ew York bank ring,
for the express purpose of giving the
country an “object lesson,” and thus
forcing a repeal of the Sherman law.
The effort was eminently successful
in all respects except in restoring
prosperity. In carrying out this de
lectable scheme, as is well known, Mr.
Cleveland put himself outside the pale
of true democracy, and straight in line
with the current republican thought.
There might and probably would
haw been some trouble even without
this artificial forcing of the panic, for
the business stagnation was almost
world-wide, and we could not reason
ably hope entirely to escape; but the
panic would not have come when it did
revival came, that also was interna
tional in character, the change ap
pearing in Europe about a year before
it. did here. Hut our main purpose now
is merely to show how unfounded is
the claim that we always have prosper
ity under republican policies.
PRESS COMMENTS.
-When Mark Hanna runs for
president as the friend of organized
labor you’ll soe the trusts backing his
bunko gaoue fox all they’re worth.—St.
Louis Republic.
-That transport that shipped the
water through her portholes, enough
to put out her fines directly she weath
ered the Golden Gate, can hardly be
considered a safe boat to carry Uncle
Sam’s soldiers, though she did cost
a barrel of money, which no doubt
some one got a commission out of.
-What right exists anywhere to
gorge the trusts with money forced
from the pockets of the people? It is
robbery—highway robbery—without
an atom of justification, save to the
extent the trusts subsidize the repub
lican party, with which they are in
close financial partnership. — Pitts
burg Post.
_The Pennsylvania democrats
find more than enough issues demand
in" the attention of the common
wealth without involving national is
sues in a state campaign. They “de
plore tthe need of making the question
of common honesty and decent admin
istration an issue,” but such is the in
evitable result of “the outrages of the
republican machine government,”
which have made Pennsylvania’s
sham? a byword.—Albany Arcus,
TRUSTS FOSTERED BY TARIFE
Artificial BolalprliiK of flic Tariff Has
Made America the Home
of Trust*. |
The protective tariff league, whose
publication bureau is just now espe
cially active in denouncing any repub
licans w ho favor a revision of the tariff
is also informing its devotees that
there are trusts in free trade England,
and therefore it cannot be protection
that breeds trusts, or fosters them; so
that something else must be looked
for that is the “mother of trusts.”
I his view of the matter is comment
ed on by the Washington Times, which
says: “The champions of the tariff
pampered trusts in the United States
have been in the habit of meeting the
demand for the removal of duties from
trust-controlled products by pointing
to England, where, it is said, there
are many trusts flourishing un
der the banner of free trade,
that sort of argument may be satis
factory to those who are anxious to be
."'uu.Mieu, DUI IT Oiisrht not to be to one
"ho is honestly seeking a remedy for
"hat is undeniably a very great evil.
“If the claim has ever been made
that there are and can be no trusts at
all without the. aid of the tariff, the
claim has been thoughtlessly urged by
only a few not very well-informed peo
ple. Large capital and combinations
in business are nearly always an ad
vantage to those who combine. Ob
viously an individual with a million dol
lars capita] can make many profitable
turns in business that are impossible
to a man whose capital is only $5,000 or
$10,000. This is true in England as it is
anywhere else.
“But the circumstance that, large
capital has an advantage in and of
itself does not prove that it is wise
to increase the advantage by relieving
it of all competition and giving it a
complete monopoly by tariff laws
which operate directly to that end.
To illustrate: If an English trust
unreasonably advances the price to
the consumer, foreign goods will at
once come in and bring the price
down again. In the United States,
the price may be set up 25 or
30 per cent, and still the for
eign goods cannot compete for tim -UU
protection of the American consumer.
The result is that me English trusts
are forced to content themselves
with profits no greater than flow nat
urally from the advantageous work
ing or their larger capital; while the
American trust not only has this ad
vantage, »but a very much greater one
in the tariff which enables them to
charge the American consumer 25
or 30 per cent, more than the same
goods are worth in the world's mar
kets. The man who does not see the
difference between the two cases
must be either willfully blind or most
woefully stupid. It is the artificial
bolstering of the tariff that has liter
ally made the United States the home
of the trusts, and has swollen them
to such proportions that the greatest
combinations in England look like
babies by comparison.
EVERYBODY IS AFFECTED.
No Matter tVliat Hi* Occupation,
Every AVorkingmaa Is Op
pressed by Combines.
llow do you like the trusts as far
as you have had to do with them?
If you are a farmer have you bought
any barbed wire or other trust pro
Clueecl article lately ana nave you reck
oned how much tax you are paying
the trusts? If you are a railroad niati
have you been thrown out of em
ployment or forced to Sock another
field of labor by the combine the
railroads have entered upon? If you
are a storekeeper you have come in
contact with the oil trust, the sugar
trust, the cereal trust, the tobacco
trust and a good many others and
you find they are not only' cutting
your profit but dictate what you shall
sell and where you shall buy.
If you are a clerk or a bookkeeper
you have found that the coal trust
and the beef trust are getting moro
of your income than you can afford
and' while they are paying millions
of profit, you are unable to save a
penny.
If you are a member of a labor
union you know what the trusts are
doing and that the steel strike is but
the beginning of an attempt to-over
throw organized labor and then .£■
duce wages. The cotton mill trust
has just reduced wages 14 per cent.
The railroad combine is gradually
advancing rates, there ife a dearth of
potatoes, they have raised the rates
on this necessity from the Northwest
to Chicago nearly 25 Per cent, and
freight on coal has been ad\anocd
in about the same proportion. 1 hese
advances are but the opening wedges
for the ultimate extortions that it is
possible for the trusts to force, all
to pay. That they will be cautious
in making increased prices is also cer
tain, for they are managed by the
shrewdest men in the world. They
are now engaged in forcing their
goods into foreign markets at prices
averaging 25 per cent, less than they
charge us at home. This they are
enabled to do through the protection
granted them by the tariff.
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