Since the present tariff was enacted this industry in the main has grown up in this country. It is. therefore. in every legitimate sense an infant industry. The existing tariff was not made with a view to preventing competition between the pauper labor of the old countries and the labor of this country. There was no such competition anticipated. because it was not known then that such an industry as this to any extent would be developed in the United States. or that the foreign ores would reach us in" increasing quantities and at diminishing prices. The iron mines of Northern New York it is true had to some extent been developed. but the iron mines which are found in other portions of New York were undeveloped.
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