If the foreigner found.no profit in this contest he would have retired from it. The moment you apply this status of the American market to the Puerto Rican market and burden the American producer with 50 cents per hundred pounds on his rice. do you not seeis it not patentthat you legislate the American producer entirely out of the Puerto Rican market and turn that market to the Japanese. Chinese. and Asiatic producer? Undoubtedly. for this cheaplabor producer has onehalf a cent a pound the advantage of the American producer in that market. Clearly. if the duty be the same in the United States and in Puerto Rico. as this measure .provides. on foreign rice. and the American rice producer must pay half a cent a pound duty to go to Puerto Rico. the foreign producer will not ship a single pound of rice into this country until he shall have supplied the wants of the people of Puerto Rico. for he will have a half cent per pound in Puerto Rico the advantage over the American market. and consequently will undersell the American rice to an absolute certainty.