If it costs twice as much to produce a thing here as it does to produce it abroad. then give us 100 per cent duty. and if it costs five times as much give us 500 per cent duty. Wood pulp and print paper come to us from Canada. All the arguments. the learned and labored arguments. which have been made. all the bugaboos about Germany and pauper labor and depreciated currency. fall to the ground when you erect that Canadian wall. The truth is that this country owes its industrial power. its industrial development. its commercial and financial supremacy. to free trade. absolute. unhampered free trade among the States more than to any other one thing except the beneficence of God and the intelligence and enterprise of our citizens. A short time ago. and 13 small Colonies were extended along the Atlantic coast.
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