Mr.President. when anillustrious representative of New England was taunted upon this floor with his vote for some distant local improvement benefiting at once and directly the community of a distant State. he replied that if a public wdrk beginning in South Carolina and ending in South Carolina were of importafice enough to be a national benefit and he failed to support it he should not dare to go home and face his constituents. that these narrowminded men of New England would tell him that the patriotism which was not broad enough and large enough to comprehend the interest of the whole was not fit to be trusted with the interest of any part. That is the spirit of the Republican and the protectionist opinion of Massachusetts today. Undoubtedly you may find occasionally that a few dozen manufacturers finding that some particular form of their industry was being transferred to another part of the country. a glass manufacturer who found that the discovery of natural gas had transferred that manufacture to Pittsburg or an iron manufacturer who found that Birmingham and Atlanta were becoming his rivals and that he must turn his attention to something else. may have wanted to strike down American manufactures and get the advantage of his proximity to the seaboard to get his material by employing the pauper labor of other climes. but the doctrine never has found any support there. I understand the Senator from South Carolina to say that he is willing to have all these industries treated alike. That is all that we ask.
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