Speech #490044289

If there was no liublie debt. no interest to pay. no pensionlist. no army and no navy to support. I still should oppose free trade and its twin sister. tariff for revenue only. and favor protective duties. He would put money into the pockets of the men that had the power to control the machinery and the labor of this country.*he would compel the men who raise wheat in Dakota at 60 cents a bushel and have to sell it in competition with the poorest pauper from Russia when he gets to the foreign market to buy his goods at such prices as New England manufacturers might demandhe would compel him to buy a ship at $300.000 that he could buy elsewhere at $200.000. and would not allow him to take the money that he got for the wheat. that he thus sold in competition with pauper labor. to buy clothes for himself and his wife and children where be sold his products and could buy whathe needed at reasonable prices. he would make him bring his money here and pay to softhe New England manufacturer 75 or 100 per cent. more than he had been asked abroad for the pime things. If there was no interest on the public debt. no army. no navy. no revenue to collect. the man who has to sell abroad must be compelled to pay people here whatever they demand for the articles they had to sell. That is the logic of the Senators position.