Speech #570019156

In fact. it is reported that a plow which costs the American farmer $15 is sold in Buenos Ayres for $8. They make the farmer pay the freight both ways. They catch him "a comin an a gwine." and still cry for protection from foreign competition in the interest of American labor. I am in favor of protecting American labor by excluding the pauper labor of China and Italy and by forcing the protected intersts to divide their immense profits with the men who really create their wealth. But a 5 per cent advance in wages is not in proportion to a 80 per cent protection. Once more.