And as the manufacturers have grown rich. and richer each year. the balance of our people have grown poor. and poorer. until the farmers of this country. who owned onehalf of the property of this United States in 1860. today only own onefifth. and the products of their farms instead of increasing have decreased each year. But. sir. we are told that a high protective tariff furnishes a home market for the farmeri and yet under that system the price of what he has to sell is fixed in a foreign market. The price of the farmers cotton is fixed in Liverpool. The same is true of their surplus wheat and corn. Sir. they conpeto with the pauper labor of Europe and of India that we have heard so much about upon this floor. Amount of breadsuffs exported from the United States during the fiscal year end. ing .TuneSO. 1893. Quantity.
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The speaker refers to the 'pauper labor of Europe and India'.