That is too high a privilege. Do not let them have it. A tax of $600.000 is not enough to impose upon them for that. put the tax up to I )0 per cent.. or $1.800.000. and give it to us. stop the importation and put it into our pockets. and we will make them all the cottonties they need." The Committee on Finance have agreed to do that. and the Senator from Maine will vote for it. and he will call that protecting home industry against pauper labor. and never intimate that stalwart New England beggars are seeking to enrich themselves by class legislation. All the other industries that the Senator from Maine talks about and lauds are clamoring to take money out of the Treasury and make the people of this country. out of their hard earnings. put it in their pockets. When they discovered that wire fence in the wilds of the We.st was absolutely necessary to enable poor settlers to raise their little crops. and found that they got the wire at only 35 per cent. more than it was worth. the same body of patriots that the Senator thinks ought to be encouraged came before us again and forced us to put the tax upon it up to 75 or 80 per cent. and put it into their pockets and not allow the Treasury to have any of it.
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