If he could not. there would not be a dollars worth of imported goods sold in this country. If the advocates of the protective system would tell the truth and avow their purpose to be that no American citizen should be allowed to buy any manufactured article. at home or abroad. unless he pays to people who have no right to any of his money 47 per cent. more for it than it was worth. or more than any citizen of any other country who is allowed to buy like articleqin the open markets of the world pays for it. they know that they would shock the people. and their demand to be restored to power to carry out such purposes would be inilignantly frowned down. Therefore they adopt the specious and patriotic "rallying cry "1 of protection against foreign pauper labor. which has deceived thousands of their victims. There are a few plain tests by which. when applied. the wayfaring man. though a fool. need not err in determining from whom the tariff tax is exacted. That tax is imposed only when goods brought from abroad enter the customhouses in this country.
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