Speech #590092711

I do not remember how much cottonseed oil. but if the gentleman will take the things we shipped abroad he will find ninetenths of them to be things not only unprotected. to use that word which is inaccurate. not only "untariffed." but if "tariffed." incapable of protection. because we make every year a surplus of them. Now. then would it not be the most remarkable thing in the world that we should not have increased our exports. and would it not have been the most remarkable thing in the world that we should not have Increased our imports. even in spite of the natural tendency of the tariff to restrict imports? We have done both by the industry of the people. by the increase In the birth rate. by the increase in the immigration rate. and the immigration. by the way. which comes to this countrya very large percentage. about twothirds I believeare men within the laboring age. men within the military age. which would mean they were within the laboring age at the same time. These men have gone into the mines. into the factories. on the farms. into the shops everywhere in the country. They and our own people increasing rapidly have been doing thingsmaking thingsmaking and growing them in larger quantities than they could eat them up and wear them out. and hence selling them abroad in spite of the tariff. which forbids us from getting the good things that others raise and make in return for our own good things as cheaply and abundantly as we could if foreign trade were less restricted.