There would have been no difficulty in providing sufficient protection for established industries to cover the difference in wages here and in competing countries. an impartial distribution of protection to all sections. the same protection to the industries of the farm. the workshop. and the mine. duties high enough for us to compete with foreign products. but not so high as to promote monopoly. The measure of protection should extend only so far as to create competition and not to create home monopoly. Protection to labor should be accomplished by wise laws in restraint of pauper and lawless immigration. In the near future we shall have to meet this very important question as to the character and nature of the immigration coming to our country-. We ought to have conservative legislation in favor of labor. and provision for the arbitration of strikes. My ideas of a model tariff are based largely upon what is called the Morrill tariffof 1861.
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