If we are going to protect the people of the United States and make them again prosperous. we will give them money and stop the crisis. We must equalize exchange. and then we can discuss the collateral matter of the tariff. There is no tariff that will now do us any good. and I wish to say to my Eastern manufacturing friends that when they ask to be protected from Asiatic competition. from cooly labor. in their manufacturing establishments. they ought to remember that the West and the South have been already destroyed by that competition. and when they ask us to increase tariff taxation and to make them an exception. they ought to remember our situation. and be willing to place us. who produce wheat. cotton. and wool. at least on an equality with the Asiatics and other silverstandard countries producing the same articles. We are at a disadvantage of 100 per cent. our civilization will be destroyed if this inequality continues. Besides. what good would a tariff do you if you had it high enough to shut out Asiatic products. if the people of the South and West had no money to buy your manufactured articles? We must be one country. I am in favor of protecting the American people and all of the American people.
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Generalizing about the economic threat posed by Asiatic competition.