It is said to retain the Philippines will furnish to us great opportunities for trade between America and the nations of the Orient. * that we must look for markets. and that we must enter into actual competition for this trade. that we must recognize changed conditions. and that by holding the Philippinesour trade in the Orient will continue to increase until we shall find a market for all our supplies and surplus products. I can not see the logic of this reasoning when there can be no reason why we can not find markets in the Orient for our surplus products without the Philippines as well as with them. and by letting them go we shall escape dangers to our liberty that are not now so clearly foreseen. but which will certainly come if we attempt to establish free institutions in the Eastern Hemisphere. Again. the protectivetariff people. who have heretofore wanted to build a Chinese wall around this country to keep out the foreigner and make him pay the tax. and keep out foreign pauper labor. or goods made by foreign pauper labor. seem to have waked up to the realization of the fact that the country has outgrown Chinese walls at home and wants to go over and tear down the Chinese wall on the farther side of the seas. and to open broader markets for our surplus products. and are even willing to open up the country to paupermade goods. and even to the paupers themselves. They talk about opposition to free trade. and yet prate about reciprocity. which we all understand is nothing less than international free trade. Why not stand. as you will finally have to stand. on the true doctrinetariff for revenue only?
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