You say you want foreign trade. But you have built up an intervening wall. Twelve months ago you said you did not want to come in contact with foreign paupers. Now you want to trade with them. and in order to get that trade you are proposing to pay out money wrung by exorbitant. wicked taxation from the laboring people of this countrymoney to build ships to go over the seas that you have set on fireseas from which you have prohibited navigation by declaring that any vessel which sails the ocean displaying your flag must come back in ballast. Why. sir. the distinguished leaders of the Republican party in the Senate made a report two years ago that we could not compete in the markets of the world with our wheat. that it was a melancholy fact confronting the American people that we must look to the home market alone for the consumption of our wheat. that we must cease speaking about sendirng wheat to Europe and exchanging it for their calicoes. their woolens. their iron. their steel.
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