Mr. BROOKS. Water is very good, but people are not content with it. they will have something else tea and coffee even the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Srsvnns1 himself. Now, here is a proposition to increase the price of beer to the la oring classes, although gentlemen desire to further the cause of tem perance. The most temperate countries on earth are those where the people drink cheap wines and lager beer, while those in which they drink, as our people do, stronger liquors, are the most intemperate and yet you propose to increase the price of lager. In the 2ndpplace I am surprised because this is a direct blow at the revenue. There is already now a revenue of $6,000,000 derived from lager beer, and it is increasing at the rate of 10%. perannum and nowit is proposed to raise the duty on Canadian barley from nothing to 15 cents perbushel, which giust have an effect on the consumption of lager eer. As to protection of the agricultural class, you cannot have it in a country like this where our prices are fixed not even by those of the NewYork market, but by those of Liverpool, london, and Havre. he price of wheat is not regulated in NewYork, nor Iowa, but in the great markets of Euro 0 and the duty you impose upon it by this bill is to have an effect upon that. Wheat that now comes from Can a a directly through NewYork, and is ciiported in American vessels, will take the circuitous route of the river StLawrence to the English and Euro eau markets, and the price is to be fixed byt e price it brings at Liverpool and Havre, and not in N NewYork; and then we lose the transfer of the freight. We cannot have protection for wheat an many of those articles, the price of which is not regulated in the U.S., but in the great marts of Europe. Your competition is not with Canada, but with the region of the Baltic and the region of the Black sea. You must reduce your wheat to their prices, without any reference to the Ca nadian market, so that it is impossible to have any protection upon that subject. This matter might be unfolded to a great length, if there was time for it; but it cannot be properly done in the live minutes that are allowe. Our agricultural interests must realize from the fertility of their soil, from the facil ities of their communication with the Atlan tic coast, and the rapid transfer of their pro ducts over railroads and canals. Those none are the means to protect the industry of our farms.