I do not believe for one moment that distinguished Republican statesmen are attempting to do what the Senator from North Carolina insinuates. I believe that they are only trying to equalize the cost of European. Asiatic. and African labor with the cost of American labor. Of course. if that be their true intent and purpose. then a duty equal to the entire cost of labor entering into an American productthe American cost and not the European cost. because the American cost would be still greater. according to themthey ought to be satisfied. But I scorn to believe that. as the Senator from North Carolina has intimated.