The people at the North can send their ice to Florida in exchange for these luscious fruits with far better profit than to raise them at home. The idea of the Government undertaking to be the father of all the people. the idea that no industry can be prosecuted here at all unless it gets a Government bounty. is a monstrous outrage upon the rights of all the people. The true policy and the true economy of this country is to exchange the products ofour valuable labor for the pauper labor of the Old NNorld. to encourage and foster at home only such industries as are adapted to our condition. and exchange with other nations our surplus. Why shall we attempt in this country to raise silk cocoons? Why shall we attempt to produce certain crockery and glass ware which we know are produced by the lowest priced labor of this earth. when we can exchange one days labor of our own intelligent people. aided by machinery. for fifty days of the labor that produces them? Let these industries remain where they are. let these pauper laborers stay at home. and let us build up our mercantile marine by this commercial exchange and lay the foundation of a great and glorious navy. let us encourage and foster the industries necessary for national defense. but let us get everything else where we can find it cheapest I will not go into a discussion of the question of the comparative values of labor today. for that is unnecessary to the issue immediately before us. but will content myself with denying that protection has ever increased the wages of labor or its purchasing power. Modern means of transportation. steamships and railroads. have brought the most distant countries into close neighborhood. and natural causes are gradually equalizing the labor of all nations. and they are growing rich by exchanging their surplus with one another. This has been the source of national wealth in all ages of the world.
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The products of valuable labor should be exchanged for the pauper labor of the Old World.