But is he not willing that the farmers of the West and South shall be taxed high prices for manufactured goods that his people may get high wages and live American lives? His voice would tremble even more should the farmers say out of their necessity. "Very well. then. let us strike down the protection which taxes us for their support. let us throw them into competition with the labor of Europe and South America. as we are thrown in competition with it through the necessity of selling our surplus in the markets of the world." so that. as the gentleman says. nature may take its course and the sacred laws of supply and demand may not be interfered with. Of course. it costs more to pay decent wages than coolie wages. and it is also true that the farmers. as 40 per cent of the buying public. help pay the added cost. Is it possible that there is any place in this country unwilling to pay the farmer what it costs him to produce the necessities of life? Who are willing to eat at the expense of some one else?