It will be claimed that you must take away all thetaxing power of the Government. which gives ou a right to discriminate upon the duties that you shall provide. that if the goods come in American ships they shall pay only so much. and if they shall come in other ships they shall pay so much morelosing sight of the great and high purpose of the Government in the raising of revenue by the taxing powers of the Government. Unquestionably that will1 be resorted to when the tariff shall be again revised. It is the spirit of paternalism run mad. It is an effort on your part not to legislate directly in a manly way. in a straightforward way. in the lines that you want. If you want more revenue. introduce your revenue bill. If you want to restrict immigration. restrict it in some proper and legitimate way. If you want to protect American industries. it must be done in some other way than by using the taxing power of the Government to build up monopolies. Mr.
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