Let me ask the advocates of high protection through the States of New England. why do your sons come to the West and leave that halcyon paradise of a high protective tariff? Why do the laborers of the New Eneland manufactories come to the Western States? Why is the ti(e of immigration pouring eternally Westward ? Did the tariff have anything to do with it? Ask any of these emigrants from Europe why he comes to this country. Does he tell you "Because I want the benefit of a high protective tariff?" He will tell you with brokem accent. and sometimes with moistened eye. "I came here to get liberty. free institutions. cheap land." That is what brings them to this country. and not the high protective tariff. So far from a protective tariff being an inducement to immigrationD. the statistics showthat it hasthe opposite effect. Under the revenue tariff from 1790 to 1800 the increase in our population was 35 per cent.. under a like tariff from 1800 to 1810. 36 per cent. Under a revenue tariff for six years and a protective tariff for four years. from 1810 to 1820. the increase was 33 per cent.
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