Chairman. that cotton grown in this country without any tariff upon it Is a complete answer to those who oppose the Canadian trade agreement for fear It would drive the price of wheat down In this country. The reports of the Secretary of Agriculture say we raised last year 691.767.000 bushels of wheat valued at $625.000.000. and every bushel of this wheat was protected by a rate of duty of 25 cents per bushel. and he reports during this same year we raised in this country $900.000.000 worth of cotton. and not a pound of cotton was protected by any rate of duty or any tariff whatever. and for the preceding five years we raised upon an average of $GS5.000.000 worth of cotton. a total in value in these six years of $4.325.000.000. representing more than four and onehalf times the total capitalization of all the national banks in the country. and nearly onethird of the value of the 250.000 miles of steam railroads in the country. with cotton all these years upon the free list. The planter of the South in these short years. though unprotected by way of duty upon his cotton. was meeting and competing with millions of Hindus of India engaged In raising cotton on land where the fertility of the soil is unsurpassed in the world and where pauper labor subsists on a very small rate of wages. Nor is this all. he was competing with Chinese coolie labor. millions strong. where our friends on that side of the Chamber are wont to tell us that labor subsists on rats and mice. Nor is this all. he was competing with the fellahs of Egypt tilling the valley of the Nile. famed for its cotton and biblical lore. where pauper labor in all of its ghostlike specter stalks abroad in the land. This commodity. unprotected as it is. has brought into the country in the past six years more than $2.000.000.000 worth of foreign gold. and every pound of it. the moment it found a foreign market. had to and did meet in open competition cotton raised by the truly pauper labor of the world. You may ask me how he was able to do it. The question is easily answered.
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Chinese laborers subsist on rats and mice.