As it is with the arsenic eaters. so it is with our protected industries. After the protection habit was formed it was necessary to keep increasing the dose. the recipients of the plunder always finding a pretext for the increase. First. they said that our infant industries needed wet nursing. Then they said we had to protect American labor from competition with the pauper labor of Europe. Then they insisted on protection for the American farmer. He must be protected. forsooth. by preventing the importation of articles which he is constantly exporting and selling in the open markets of the world and in competition with all the world.
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