There is no question about that. and those products which have been given duties are so nearly free that they are not even revenue bearers. While they put the farmers products practically all on the free list they have given the manufacturers high protective duties. I venture to say. as to some things. although I do not think they will plead guilty of giving protection to the manufacturers while they put the farmer on the free list. forcing him to compete with Asiatic labor and all the labor of the world. You might just as well open your ports and repeal the Chinese exclusion act as to let them bring their products in free of duty. which they were doing before the emergency tariff bill was passed and are doing now to some extent. I think I would prefer to have that labor here. as far as that is concerned. and I believe every laboring man would rather the foreigner would come in and compete with him in his own market. than to ship his products from foreign markets and compete In that way. The American laborer would be one hundred times better off.
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