Think of it. in the Northwest where I have been many a time. in Minnesota. Kansas. and Nebraska. where the mosquitoes are it is true not as big as geese. but where they are very vigorous. $89 a ton is put on the wire that the people living among mosquitoes have to have in their windows or they can not live. Senators from Western States will vote a tax of $89.60 a ton on wire that these poor people have to put over their windows to keep out the mosquitoes. and do it in the name of protecting American labor. while those very people have to raise their wheat and their corn and send it abroad and to sell it in competition with all the pauper labor of the world. I hope that these provisos will be carefully scanned and looked at from the beginning to the end. and it will be found that there is a series of provisions seeking to create taxes unduly. and this provision made by the Senator from Vermont is not the recommendatioi of anybody until he brings it in today and says it has the sanction of a majority of the committee. No man appeared before the committee to ask for it. no man claimed that he had a right to it. no man claimed that he needed -it. no man claimed that $67.20 a ton or 3 cents a pound upon the wire of which these rods are made was not sufficient protection .gainst anybody anywhere. and yet I suppose it will be voted through.
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