Speech #510106291

I think you can do that perhaps at some other time. I will answer the Senator from Rhode Island on my own account and I think I can give him. a better answer than the Senator from Mississippi would be able to do. I wish to say that the Senator from New Jersey is this kind of a protectionist: God forbid that American labor shall be forced to work on a par with the pauper labor of any country. I am perfectly willing to vote. and have always voted and always shall vote. to give ample protection to American labor. but when the Republican orator runs around this country proclaiming in thunder tones that a tariff rate of 52 per cent. is needed to protect American labor I can not consent. when to my certain knowledge when you come to measure the product of American labor with .the product of labor abroad you will find it to be the cheapest labor in the world. I complain of tariffsraised onthe plea of protecting American labor which labor never gets. - Take. if you please. the boot and shoe industry in the State of Massachusetts.