The Liverpool price of wheat and cotton. less the freight. is the price fixed not alone for that part exported. but for that greater part consumed at home. Thus you behold the American manufacturer purchasing his supplies from the American farmer at the same rates paid the ryots of India or the fellaheen of Egypt. and compelling the farmer by this unjust law to pay for manufactured goods the worlds price plus the tariff. which. in some schedules of this bill. doubles the cost of the goods. Our laboring people must not be brought into competition with the pauper labor of Europe. yet by this bill the cotton grower and wheat farmer are brought into competition not with the pauper labor of Europe but with the pauper labor of India and Egypt. labor which. with the improved American agricultural machinery. produces almost as much as our labor. yet which is content with a breechclout and a bowl of rice. But the advocates of this measure affirm that the establishment of manufactures near the farmer is an indirect protection. I deny that it increases the price of his staples the millionth part of a cent.
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