Speech #530052613

This is clearly shown in the speech of Mr. MORRILL. of Vermont. who had charge of bill. in which he said: "When we impose a tax of 5 per cent upon our manufacturers and increase the tariff to the same extent upon foreign manufacturers. we leave them upon the same relative footing they were at the start." (See Globe of June 2. 1864.) It was reserved forthe Republican politicians of a later period to invent the pretenses that tariff taxes were f6r the benefit of.workingmen. and of all the barefaced inventions that were ever paraded before the American people. that is the most fraudulent. shameless. and hypocritical. but all the same. year after year. the Republican leaders have stood up here and upon that claim justified themselves in voting higher and yet higher taxes upon the American people. Oh. yes. they are so anxious to maintain the "dignity of American labor." to "protect it against the pauper labor of Europe." And yet. with all the machinery of the Government in their hands. what did they actually do for the workiugmen? They simply built up a Chinese wall for the benefit of the manufacturers. to keep out the products of foreign labor. and yet left the gates wide open for the foreign labor itself! Some of the Republican leaders. however. were frank enough to avow the real truth. and in 1882 Senator John F.