Speech #570018765

The Democratic party asserts that this is not only wrong in principle. but if there ever was a time and condition of affairs in this country which warranted such legislation. that time has passed and those conditions no longer exist. and there is today no necessity for the further continuance of legislation which is an oppressive burden upon the masses of the American people and a menace and a threatening danger to American commerce. We confidently assert that there is no necessity for the further continuance of this exorbitant tariff tax. and for the proof of the correctness of this assertion we point to the $433.851.756 worth of manufactured articles exported from the United States in the year 1900. We assert that this export trade was profitable or it would not have been undertaken. and we call attention to the fact that these exports not only yielded profit to the American manufacturer. after paying cost of transportation and additional handling. but were sold in foreign countries. in the open markets of the world. entirely separate from any good influence of our tariff. legislation. and in competition with the pauper labor of Europe. Asia. and Africa. that bugbear which the Republican party so much delights to hold up to frighten and intimidate the American people. and especially the American laboring man. into a support of its policy and legislation which yields tribute money to these rich and powerful classes. Mr.