There is not in any of this petition for the exclusion of the competition of the pauper heat and pauper light of the sun one single. solitary argument that I have not had In my time hurled at me from the other side of the Chamber. as a refutation of "Democratic free trade arguments "-that horrible thing. and as the writer of this petition says. why should a man who puts a prohibitive tariff upon oranges because God furnishes more heat somewhere else. so as to require less labor and therefore to grow orangecheaper and more abundantly. not put a prohibitive tariff upon the heat itself? My friends. I have heard but one new thing lately. and that comes. strangely enough. from a Republican. the gentleman from Massachusetts . who just now proposes to put a tariff upon pauper labor itself. How late are you awakening to the idea that if it be right or necessary to exclude by taxation the products of what you call pauper labor in order that by making the products more scarce the price might rise. and that by reason of the price rising greater profits might be made for our manufacturers to share. if he will. with his labor? How long. I have frequently wondered. was it going to be until you had reached the idea of excluding labor. which is the source of. wealth itself. because abundance of good and useful things is wealth. not their price nor thei geography xf production.
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