I want to say. in reply to the phrase that is very common on the other side of the Chamber. and which the Senator from Rhode Island has more than once repeated. that we who oppose these high duties favor the foreign laborer and fiavor the manufacturing of these things abroad. that that is a disingenuous statement. When a man stands up here and argues infavor of thehome consumer. which embrace about fortyfive out of the fifty millions of people in these United States. and desires to have things cheapeened for their benefit. it is certainly. to. say the least of it. disingenuous to claim that that man is arguing in the interest of foreign labor and the people of the Old World. I confess that I am interested for the benefit of the people at home. and I might with just as much propriety charge him when he claims that the duty is in behalf of the American laborer when the better part of it in his country is paid to foreigners. that he is preferring the interest of the foreign paupers to theinterest of the American consumers. With munch more propriety might that be said. Why is it so desirable that laces. which he says are pure luxuries. should be manufactured at home rather than abroad?
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