Where the freight alone is from $5 to $15 :a bale. to say nothing of the shipping damage. to say nothing of marine insurance. or the ordinary insurance. the conversion abroad. and the incidental waste. and then the rebaling and shipping back. it does seem that the mere proximity of the American mills to the worlds supply of cotton would be a sufficient protection to guarantee her immunity against the world. Yet there is not a schedule that has a higher rate of duty than the cotton schedule. The raw material Is produced in this country. not produced by pauper labor. but produced by American farmers. I do not say they get anything like a price commensurate with the value of the stuff they produce. for they do not. but none of us can say that America produces cotton with pauper labor. We produce the raw material kith American labor. on land owned by American landowners. Europe buys that stuff. converts it into the finished product. reships it. and our manufacturers complain that without a tremendous duty they can not successfully compete with their foreign competitors.
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