It is said that the rates of freight from India and Russia to Liverpool are no higher than from the United States to Liverpool. Her rate of wages. although having risen 100 per cent. in the last thirty yehrs. is now about 8 cents per day. farm labor can be had for 5 cents per day. It is with this pauper labor we will have to compete in our exports of grain. and at the rate they are increasing their annual products we will not only be compelled to give up the foreign market. except in times of failure. but they will be knocking very soon at the doors of our ports with their cereal products. Then you will find that the farmer will plead as he has never pleaded before for protection. and insteadof 20 cents per bushel on wheat and barley he will want perhaps three times that amount. It is said that wheat can be produced at a profit in India for 30 cents a bushel. There are employed in agricultural pursuits in the United States 7.670.493. If these people are to compete with the pauper labor of India and Russia in the production of wheat and other cereals. they of all others will stand most in need of protection. But the farmerwill say. or you do for him. that you must lower your duties on manufactured goods. then the tbreign manufacturer can afford to exchange his goods for our wheat and flour. This argument has been strongly urged by the other side of the House.
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