This is one manufacturer. and there are but three hundred and seventyfour of them in the whole United States in knit woolen goods. Yet we are told. when not onetenth of the whole industry and capital of the country is in manufactures. that the other ninetenths are to pay these prices in order to protect American labor and furnish us with a home market. The farmer. who furnishes 82J per cent. of the entire exports of this country. is made to come in competition with his products with the illfed. illclothed. and pauper labor of Europe. with the lower classes of Russia. and the miserable population of India. There is no protection for him. He is compelled to come in competition with this pauper labor all over the world as to his productions. and he is compelled at the same time to pay 200 and 300 per cent. and 374 per cent. ad valorem. as the Senator from Delaware showed the other day. in order to protect the manufacturers of the country and enable them to pile up colossal fortunes. Mr. President. if the tariff system did protect even the laborers in the manufactories of the country. that would be some excuse for it. but it does nothing of the sort.
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European laborers are ill-fed, ill-clothed, and paupers.