We have a greater abundance of cheap food for our operatives than any other country. and our laboring people are conceded to be the most active. intelligent. and effective laborers in the world. We have untold millions of capital seeking investment at 3. 4. and 5 per cent. We have the protection of over 3.000 miles of ocean between us and the socalled pauper labor of Europe. and in addition to all this a tariff constructed solely to raise revenue for the Government would give incidental protection far beyond the difference between American and European labor. With all these advantages. it is alibel on the American people tosay that they would be unable to meet foreign competition in their home markets withoipt a tariff averaging 62 per cent. for their protection. With these advantages. if all protection except that incident to a strictly revenue tariff were withdrawn and the manufIcturers wereleft. as all our other people are. to take care of themselves. the reduced cost of their products would enable them to hold not only the home market. but to meet successfully the competition of the world in foreign markets.
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