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Admiral

Agent

feed the new ports, of course to the improvement latter.

of business at the

I hold that our

foremort duty

in this country is the Expansion of our Suport drade. The Export Frade, whetteer fostered or not,

Will Fake feni care

of itself. The Import Trade, Whether on behalf of the home producer, Whose interest I put first, or of the local factor, attention. Though

Requires all our

Steadily increasing

is

Sorely Pagation.

its debelopement

hundered by abnormal

which we cannot show

to be in violation of the Treaty . The ransit duty clauses are not biolated at all to the Excent alleged.

fairly operative, and

That they are

that

all

that by their operation, our merchant is enabled to carry his foods through the biterion on better forms Kan the Chinese Erader, is proved by the fact that the latter funds it borthe while to purchase Fransit- Buty certificates of the foreigner, under cover of which he escapes

charge

at the Inland Barriers except the Half Buty for which the foreigner by treaty compounds.

But the Import Trade is, for all that reavily weighted by the Exgation laid

expon dealer, the plea for which is the provision of funds to meet was expenditure. On this plea, the li kui and other denominations

Ite native

of the same timport will contione to be levied so

long

as

J State

of

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