The fact that the people of England. and not the people of the United States. ask for free trade ought to have put the President on inquiry as to who pays the tax created by our tariff. The effect of this kind of taxation is illustrated. as before stated. by the rapidity with which we acquire wealth under the operations of the tariff. Our Democratic iriends tell thelaboring class that they will be greatly benefited if they do not have so much work to do. that if they do not do any of their own work. but hire Asiatics and Europeans to do it. they can live in luxury. The trouble is. however. they do not tell them how they are going to get money to buy these luxuries produced by cheap labor in other countries if they have no work to perform by which they can earn money. There is another way to regulate the amount of money to be produced from the sale of our markets. Instead of selling them so cheap that any fbreign country can buy them and make money at it. raise the price so that neither Asia nor Europe can afford to buy them. In other words. make the tariff prohibitory on articles in the production of which there is competition at home. I am opposed to giving away our markets. our people want them. they want the privilege of supplying them with their own maunfactures and their own products. and they have a right to them. they live here and pay taxes. - The Europeans and Asiatics do not support our Government and have no right to the privileges of our markets. All we have to do. if there is too much revenue. is to raise the tariff. do more work athome. buy less from abroad. and give our people a chance. The question must be discussed and understood before we adopt the Presidents plan. which is to throw open our markets and put the laboring men of this country in competition with the cheap labor of the Old World.
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