He must say the tariff will bring him higher prices and a better paying business. and that he wants tribute extracted at the expense of his fellowman to sustain his private enterprise. If the tariff give him iersonal bounty at public expense. it is unjust. unwarranted by constitutional authority. and at war with the essential principles of republican institutions. and he has no right to demand or expect it. if it does not have this effect. he can invent no reason for its imposition. Mr. Chairman. we have heard much during this discussion of pauper labor in Europe. Cobden clubs. and freetrade England. I deem it not inappropriate to invite brief attention to two of Englands greatest men. and what they have said of American institutions and American policy.
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