The cost of transportation will not make any material difference between wages in America and wages in Asia. The only protection the laborer has is our tariff. Remove that. and the Asiatics. residing at home and subsisting on rice. free from all the burdens of our country. can enjoy all of its advantages. The laborers of this country must work for Chinese wages and starve if we give away our markets. The freetraders tell the hatter that if there were no tariff on boots he could buy boots cheaper. but they do not tell him where he could get money to buy boots with if there was no tariff on hats.
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Asiatics subsisting on rice can enjoy all of America's advantages if tariffs are removed.