Crossword-Solution: TARIFFED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The peace of the world will be established for ever, and everywhere, except in remote and desolate places, there will be convenient inns, at least as convenient and trustworthy as those of Switzerland to-day; the touring clubs and hotel associations that have tariffed that country and France so effectually will have had their fine Utopian equivalents, and the whole world will be habituated to the coming and going of strangers.

That is to say--seeing that nearly all our competitors had tariffs--the tariffed countries pay the worst wages; and we were to raise ours by having tariffs also.

For the rest, _costs of living_ were shown by all the official statistics to be lower with us than in any of the competing tariffed countries; and in particular much lower than in the United States.

There were thus established the three facts that wages were higher in the Free Trade country than in the European tariffed countries; that real wages here were higher than those of the protected industries in the United States, and that Protection was thus so far from being a condition of good wages as to be ostensibly a certain condition of bad.

Speaking of funerals reminds me that the newspapers propose that the undertakers, like the butchers, should be tariffed.