Speech #470166939

The man who bad a pair of carriage horses to sell. if I was actingas agent for a friend who desired to buy. would be the last man I would go to to consult as to the value of that pair of horses. If he knew he could getall lie askedhe would charge me a thousand dollars. when perhaps lie mighthave been offering them for $250. because I wasfool enough to go to hini and ask what he wanted and what he thought was right. and he is justas honest in hisdealings as the Rhode Island cotton manuficturer. They were content with what the commission had done. it was more than they expected. more than they asked. but when they found that protection for protections sake was to be the rule. and that the party controlling this Government in its administration now cared nothing for revenue as an incident. but for protection only. and were raising the clamnor of foreign pauperism. and said what they were going to do to elevate the laborer. they found they could do better than they expected. and they came and changed their schedule. and now denounce everybody who opposes it. and we are told that ire have to look tathe men intowhose pockets the moneygoes as the best informed men and the men whom we ought to follow. That may do very well in the Senate. but when it is understood all over this country that the cotton thread and the plain goods the pople wear are to be taxed 40 per cent.. and over 40 per cent.. and that the manufacturers are not content with 40 per cent. more than the goods can be had in the open markets of the world. where their wheat. their corn. their bacon. and their provisions have to be sold. and that they are not to be allowed to buy where they are compelled to sell. but are to enrich a few men in Rhode Island and elsewhere to any extent they may demand by taking money out of the Treasury and out of their pockets. there will be a. different verdict rendered from that which may be rendered in this Senate.