Robert Fulton. before whose statue in yonder hall I have stood in silent admiration for hours. did more for the freedom of trade. for the emancipation of commerce from the slavery of protection. than all the acts of Congress from the beginning of this Government to the 23d day of April. A. D. 1884. But it is claimed that to do away with our protective policy would bring our own labor in competition with the pauper labor of Europe. and reduce our labor to starvation wages. or force it out of employment altogether. that free trade means the employment of foreign labor and the discharge of our own. This is only another form of the old argument that commerce is a swindle. Sir. we are a commercial nation. and a commercial nation as such does not and can not employ foreign labor.
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