Speech #510130799

Mr. President. that it is not good policy. that it is not just or fair to the American people. to give to the domestic manufacturer free raw material. or substantially free raw material. for the purpose of having it converted into the finished product for exportation and sale abroad cheaper than it can be sold here. and deny at the same time to the American manufacturer free rawanaterial for conversion into finished products to be sold to his own fellowcitizens at a reduced rate. That is where I object to your policythat you have deliberately adopted and persisted in maintaining and now propose to extend a policy which encourages the American manufacturer. by the temptation of great profits. to import into this country the products of foreign pauper labor. againstwhich you are protesting every day. to convert them into machines and fabrics of various kinds. and then export them to England. and France. and Germany. and China. and Japan. and South America. and Australia. and other parts of the world. and sell them to the people of those countries from 15 to 20. or 30. or 50 per cent. lower than to the people of America. who pay the taxes. are able to procure them for. I insist that this system should be abandoned totally and forever or that you shall give to the American consumers the great advantages which you give to the foreign consumers in these manufactured products. by making the raw material free and the partially manufactured material free or reducing the rates of duty upon the partially manufactured material which our manufacturers here are compelled to have in the production of the articles they manufacture. But you have drawn the line between the American consumer and the foreign consumer of your own products. and adopted a provision of law. which this bill proposes to extend. by which the foreign consumer of your manufactured products shall have them at a lower price than your own fellowcitizens. and then you tell us that we are the advocates of foreign interests. or. as the Senator from Massachusetts said the other day. "The unconscious allies of the English people! " Sir. we are contending that you shall give to the American consumer an opportunity to buy the products of factories operated in his own country as low in price as you allow the English consumer to purchase them for. and we are protesting against the manufacturers of the United States importing the products of this cheap. foreign. pauper labor to be manufactured into finished goods. and then returning them to those foreign paupers at a less price than our own people can have them for. Now. Mr.