What a contrast between England under free trade and the United States under protection! While England increased her wealth 41 per cent. per head her people increased their capacity to satisfy their wants 600 per cent. per bead. How are these foreign paupers able to live so highly while our protected laborers are fighting hunger at their doors. and over twenty thousand form one congressional district in Pennsylvania petitioning the Government to furnish them aid in fleeing from their homes to escape starvation I In 1850. under low tariffs. we consumed under $6 per head of the products of foreign countries. and in 18600 had increased our consumption nearly 100 per cent. and the national wealth about 100 per cent. This was during a decade of the lowest tariffs we have ever had. and these figures show that the growth of that wealth was general throughout the land. In 1870. after ten years of high tariffs. thescene had changed materially.
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Foreigners are described as paupers who are able to live highly while American laborers are fighting hunger.