On the other hand. there has been .those among our statesmen who believe that the problems of political. industrial. and social economy are so far national in their nature thateach Government should solve them -in its own way in the interest of its own people. They believe that the right to trade should not be free. If :by preventing free trade a Government can add to the material welfare of its own people. :they believe that each Government ought to obstruct the socalled natural law of movement among people byrestrictive -immigration laws. if by doing so the welfare of its own people may be protected or promoted. This divergence of political thought has manifested itself in most of the great political battles that have been fought in this country and has always been the fundamental difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties. The Democratic Party has. generally speaking. believed that the right of free trade should meet no interferenceat the nationalboundary line by proteetive tariff laws. that there should be no interference by protective legislation with free competition between the laborers of America and other countries. in the price of labor.
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