Morse. before the committee. aptly characterized it as a "dude" cigar. with nothing to commend it but its appearance. as unsafe to judge from its covering what is within as to guess the character of a man from the clothes that cover him. which every gentleman knows is very often suggestive of a fiftydollar saddle on a twentydollar horse. But the taste and the demand exist. and the inquiry I now put is. ought they to be gratified at the cost of this American industry? But for the fact. not creditable to us. that in the gratification of our appetites the sentiment of patriotism seems to have little part. a patriotic American smoker would. spurn the "delight of the eye" that he can only enjoy upon the condition of supplanting the labor of Americans by that of halfcivilized Asiatics. I am not. however. arguing for its entire exclusion. I am willing that those who have a fad or a fancy that they are willing to pay to have gratified should have an opportunity.
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Half-civilized Asiatics are taking jobs from Americans.