I may have misconceived the drift and tenor of what is called the protection argument in this debate. and in all the other debates on that subject. but I have been very much mistaken if I have not understood it to be the object and purpose of a high tariff to enable the manufacturer to pay higher wages to the laborer. Now. the Senator says. as I understand him. that that question is regulated by demand and supply. that a high tariff has nothing to do with it. that is to say. so far as the regulation and raising and reducing of wages is concerned. I may be mistaken. but I say that the entire argument in the past has been that we want a high tariff. that we want high taxation. in order to protect American labor against the pauper labor of Europe. solely and simply to enable the manufacturer to increase the price of American labor. That is what I have understood to be the argument.
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