Cox. of New York]. must drown. That there are abuses in the tariff system hardly any member will dispute. That the freelist in the matter of necessaries for the masses should be enlarged few will care to argue against. but that the almost unqualified "free trade" advocated by the frank and brilliant gentleman from Ohio . the American El Mahdi of the "freetrade" army. is an impossibility. while American workingmnen intend to live outside the conditions of European and Mongolian pauperism none but a splendid enthusiast like himselfwill care to dispute. The gentleman from Ohio as an orator. not to flatter him. reflects luster upon this House. but as a Democrat he must not be intolerant of those who. while differing from him on this. are constitutionally in sympathy with him on other questions. In his remarks. as quoted in a morning paper. he is made to say: The agitation has already begun.
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European and Mongolian conditions are equated with 'pauperism'.