To my Democratic friends I say that if there had never been any special privileges granted to other classes. then I admit that the Government ought not to give a special benefit to the farmers. but. inasmuch as the Government has already granted privileges to the 70 per cent. as above set out. I contend that it is in exact line with the Jeffersonian doctrine to grant the same equal rights to the farmers that we have already granted to the other 70 per cent. so as to put all classes of our people on an equality. Again. some say that we ought to repeal the tariff laws. the transportation laws. the banking laws. and the immigration laws. Mr. President. we all know that we are not going to do that. When we Democrats get into power. we do not repeal the tariff laws. We simply reduce them on certain articles and apparently there is no intention on the part of anyone to do away with the tariff laws. Nor is it likely that we will repeal the banking laws. or the immigration laws. or any other laws conferring. favors upon the favored 70 per cent. Under these circumstances. what is our manifest duty? Why.
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