We have been told. sir. that this bill is a step toward free trade. and a panacea for the evils which this land is suffering. I do not believe. and I have not been convinced. that this land is suffering alone from the evils of overprotection. When I look around and see the suffering millions of this land ground down by railroad monopolies. telegraph monopolies. imported pauper labor. extravagant and centralized government. and by iniquitous land laws. I am unwilling to concede that overprotection is the only evil and the only bane from which the American people are suffering. Seeing the zealous conduct of members here in advocating this measure to the exclusion of every other method of redress for the evils against which the people are crying. one would almost be led to believe this to be the sum of all iniquities and the only disease of the bodypolitic.
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