Speech #450053335

The increase and pros6 perity are therefore only apparent. and the independent. glorious. and wealthy country "boasts of a florid vigor not its own." As an evileace of the alleged beneficial results of the protective or taxing policy. we are often reminded that the skill and enterprise of American mechanism. sustained and nourished by that policy. is even now offering manufactured cotton goods for sale in the markets of England. My colleague on the Committee on Revolutionary Pea. siens and the War of 1812. [Mr. Evxxs. of Pennsylvania.] recently made that fact (f) the subject of a part of his tariff speech In this House. and on it indulged in rhapsodies over the irrepressible genius of American industry. and its full capacity to wrestle with the ener gics of Great Britain. sustained as they are by what is called "pauper labor" Pennsylvania is a unit upon the subject of "protection." as it is generally believed. and its democracy even. to use the language of another. is "pure irony." To tax other people for the benefit of her iudustries. is indeed the "keystone" of her politics. Doubtless she thinks it is all WRtItT. (right.) but I think it is KILLINGEn. (killing her.) Now. if the manufacturers of cotton goods can send their products to England for competitive sale in her markets. it is perfectly clear that that business needs no protection at allnot oven that which a revenue tax would provide. The argument of the gentleman is therefore destructive of his own position. and shows the utter unsoundness of his illustration.