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the enterprise had it been written at the present time, when the entire debt of the Pacific roads has been repaid to the national government. But neither Greeley nor Dana was content to rest the establishment of the commercial policy of the country solely on the advocacy of a protective tariff. While both favored the latter measure as absolutely essential to the development of our resources, both opposed free-trade with all the ability they could bring to bear in the discussion. In November, 1850, Dana wrote an editorial for the Tribune which may be taken as a fair sample of all on that topic. I quote from it as follows: There are free-traders by interest and free-traders by theory. These two classes are far apart in motives and in character. The first care not a copper for the philosophy of the matter, their only philosophy being to make money, according to that antique if not venerable principle, each for himself and the devil take the hindmost. In this country they c