That 30 per cent. of increase has been retained to this day. and the present bill proposes to increase it still more upon many of the articles of cotton. as we will see when we dome to them. So much for that. The pauper labor of Europe is paraded as being another reason why the tax should be kept up. I am not going to argue all these questions. The South has to compete. of course. upon terms of absolute equality with New England. with all her magnificent machinery and with all her advanced processes of manufacture. the South in her impoverished condition having had taken $65.000.000 from the products of her fields in the fbrm of a tax that was made the excuse for doubling the tariff. which the New England men have had for eighteen yeals since that tax was repealed. and which they are hanging on to now with the tenacity of death and asking for more.
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