It is not her interest to trade with us. and therefore she curtails her dealings with its all she can. having due regard to the wants and interests of her people. I can instance country after country whose action for years has been prohibitory or retaliatory against our products. or some of them. because of our highly protective tariff. and we have never till now made any fuss about it. The theory of those who have been managing the affairs of this Government is. that every country ought to exclude foreign competition with home industries. keep out foreign paupers. make what you want at home. keep other people and their goods away from you. Now. when other people are doing what we tell them we intend to do. are doing. and ought to do. surely what is good for us must be good for them. at least the men who are advocating that doctrine can not retaliate because they follow the advice we give and the course we pursue. I think when the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations comes in it will show a condition of things built up by the action of this country. and it will prove that. retaliation will aggravate all these evils ind will be no remedy for any of them. but will simply further punish our own people.
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