This is my desire. and this should certainly be the desire of all members of Congress who have the interest and welfare of their countrymen at heart. All occupations. including the manufacturer and corporation. in this country seem to have combined their interests against the agricultural and laboring interests of the country. when in fact they depend in the main. as does all our people. upon the agricultural and laboring interests of the country. and instead of combining and seeking to hear down and oppress this class of their fellowcitizens. they should seek to strengthen and build them up. The railroad companies have their emissaries and agents scattered all over the country with their flattering description of western lands and cheap rates of travel. to induce the honest and unsuspecting farmer and laborer to sellout and emigrate west. in order that they may make a "spec." in transporting him and his family to the great west. and when they have got his money they are contented if the emigrant and his family all starve. And so with many professional men and corporations. all acting in the interest of sclft regardless of what is right or wrong. And last. but not least by any means. comes the manufacturer with honeyed words and sweet accents. saying to the farmer that "We must have protection to enable us to make you cheap goods." And to Congress they cry aloud. that they must have protection by law to prevent foreign competition in the manufacture of goods that our own people want . that Congress must keep a high protective tariff to protect the interest of our manufacturers and compel the farmers. laboring men. and consumers of this country to pay them such profits as they may demand.
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