That is the principle upon which every Democratic tariff bill promulgated since the war has been framed. In levying a tariff to raise revenue to support the Government I believe in placing a duty upon foreign products sold in this country in competition with like home products sufficient to equal the difference between the labor cost of that product here and abroad. The American laborer Is entitled to this equalization. whether his competitor is a European or an Asiatic laborer. and the whole country participates in the prosperity which comes to him as a result. The object accomplished is a public object. To levy a higher duty for this purpose than is necessary to equalize these labor conditions would be a private bounty and wrong.