Speech #550023871

The offices are always monopolized by one side or the other. We are all here to see to the various interests in our parts of the country. to enact laws to protect them equally and live under equal laws. When a gentleman from one section of the country says that an article is raw material and it is raised in his section. and although his people have labored to produce it. there is no duty on it at all. that he will have no protection. that the laboring men in his State may be brought in competition with the Asiatics and he does not care how much they suffer in that competition. that he has a theory that raw material should not be taxed. that everything produced in his section should be treated as raw material. that although his people labor in the fields to produce it. they shall labor in competition with the Asiatics. he says that those who live in cities and live by manufacturing shall buy in the freetrade market there in his State or in Asia or elsewhere. and sell in a protected market. and that his constituents. after having sold in a freetrade market. shall be compelled to buy in a protected market and build up the manufacturers. it is the duty of every Senator and every Representative to look to the interests in his own State and to see that they are protected. for otherwise we shall never have fair tariff laws. If the tariff laws are unfair. it is because Senators in different sections have not looked after the interests of their constituents. If New England is built up and is more prosperous than the other sections. it is because the representatives of New England have always seen to it that everything that comes to New England shall come as raw material. and that everything New England sellsis a completed product to be sold in a protected market.