I leave my own seat because from that place It Is impossible to be heard. Listening to the arguments that have been made against this reciprocity treaty I have been struck with one fact. and that is the fact that this great and glorious country of ours is the poorest country on earth in thesense that we are absolutely unable to compete on our own ground with the Inhabitants of any other quarter of the globe. We can not compete in cattle or sheep with the warm regions of South America. we can not compete in farm products with the colder regions of Canada. we can not compete with. the bleak plains of Siberia. we can not compete with the peon labor of Mexico. we can not compete with the pauper labor of Europe. nor can we compete with the highpriced labor of the New World. We can not compete with any people in any country in any product under the sun. and Heaven itself is so cruel that the very minerals in the bowels of the earth and the trees in our forests can not compete in richness or growth with any other land. Under the same reasoning. the same class of gentlemen. if the Constitution in the beginning had not forbidden the levying of any duty between the States. would in each and all of our States have erected tariff walls against each other.
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Generalization about the inability to compete with the labor of Mexico and Europe.