Speech #550003921

I did not yield for a speech. I want to say. further. that the gentlemen on the other side are now beginning to hedge. They know that so long as we continue under a gold standard (laughter and jeers on the Republican side]. with a decreased volume of currency. there must be a shrinkage of value. and for that reason they are trying to get an increase in the tariff. Now they are saying. on the one side. they want protection to protect the American laborer. so be will not come in competition with the pauper labor of Europe. If you are going to pay the American laborer higher prices for his wages and the American farmer-