They did so in those days and perhaps some even do today. The simple point was that we had a Member of the House saying. "I think it would be better to put a tax on foreigners than to put a tax on Americans." We do not think like that any longer of course. but they did in those days. Notice. he mentions emigration. For if there were high tariffs. people who made things would come inside the United States in order to continue to make them. It is an idea that had never occurred to me. I clearly did not know it was an idea at the time that a high tariff wall would encourage emigration because people who are on the other side would want to come on this side. You learn. You learn what is on the minds of the Congress in ways you would never otherwise do so.
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