Speech #550034164

When my friend from Louisiana says that it is our duty to protect the American sugar raiser against the action of the German Government in paying this export bounty. he concedes the whole doctrine of protection. What is the doctrine of protection based upon? It is that the pauper labor. resulting flom governments maintained on the other side of the water. enables those people to manufacture the things which we desire to use cheaper than we can manufacture them. and that therefore we must protect the American industry against the competition of pauper labor. Suppose Germany. instead of giving an export ounty. had supplied the sugar raisers in Germany with cooly labor from Japan or cooy labor from China. The same argument could be made that the tax must be made higher because the American labor can not compete with the cheap labor thus XXX140 furnished by the German Government to assist its people in raising cheap sugar.