Speech #630006402

You who come with your lamentations. forebodings. and prophecies. telling of the evil that will follow in the wake of this enactment. should remember that as doctrinarians you are not strangers to error or as prophets that you have not always been a success. You have come to us in other days and told us that no matter how high we placed the duty. that it was not our concern. for you were sure that tile joke was on the foreigner and that he was the fellow who paid the tariff. You came to us and said that you were interested in the weal of the workman and your hearts yearned that he be shielded from a competition with the pauper labor of other lands. while you have for 50 years watched with complacent eye monster ships laden with human cargo shipped from southern Europe to take their place beside the American laborer without let or hindrance. In all your love for the laboring man he now awakens to the fact that after enjoying your protection for all of these years that there stands between him and the lowestpaid labor of all the earth only the price of the steerage fare on the cheapest steamship that rides the wave. The only real protection that he hasi and he knows it. is the efficiency that lies in his own brawn and brain. and he holds in contempt your expressed passed a greater range of humanity and humanitys needs than fears and forebodings that he can not compete with any people any like committee that has sat in this country for 50 years. in all the world who can make a fulldress suit out of C cents I shall support this measure gladly. not because all of its worth of calico. schedules are just what I would have made them. nor because You stood on the political hustings for many years and denied it is a perfect bill. but because it. is an honest effort on the part that there was such a thing as a trust. and when your position of its framers to fulfill the pledges made by the Democratic was proven to be wrong. you said through the mouthpiece of Party to the people of the country. I believe it will not be a your prophet and leader that if there was such a thing that disappointment to the people as is so freely predicted by those it was a good thing for the country and it should be encouraged who today sit in the wailing places.