You offer the remedy of tariff revision. Yet from your standpoint you are pitiably inconsistent. and you know it. What becomes of your stock argument that the tariff duty is a tax levied for the protection of American labor against the pauper labor of Europe? You have often sung the song. but now you are driven. looking at it from the orthodox Republican standpoint. to open the door to coal mined by pauper labor in England and Chinese labor in the Dominion of Canada. as was so plaintively described by the gentleman from Wyoming a moment ago. and that. too. when the unfortunate miner is most in need of this vaunted protection against the pauper labor referred to. Either you were hypocritical when you resorted to this argument or you are cruel now to the coal miners. who need all the help they can get to recover from the distress occasioned by the long strike. You are not cruel.
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