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south, where labor is plenty and cheap, and where the ravv 

 material will be at yonr very door. We propose to ask you 

 to draw the fires from under your furnaces, and to bring 

 them down South, where iron and steel and its products can 

 be made cheaper than anywhere else in the w'orld. 



\Mien President Roosevelt gets through revising the 

 freight rates, we propose to send our goods cheaper to you 

 than you can make them for yourselves. Wlien President 

 Roosevelt gets the tariff revised we expect to buy our clocks 

 cheaper in Germany than you can make them in Ansonia. 

 And I want to communicate to you the fact, which may not 

 be generally understood here, that our Virginia hard woods 

 make the very finest flavored nutmegs in the world, and I am 

 afraid when that fact becomes generally known, Connecticut 

 will have no market for her well-known product, ^^'hen all 

 these things have been accomplished, and you are ready to 

 give up yourselves and come down and make your home in 

 our favored country, we want you to bring your sons and 

 your daughters, and you will be as welcome as the flowers 

 that bloom in the spring, but we do not want you to think that 

 you are coming to a new country. V\e do not want you to 

 understand that you are going to be pioneers in any sense. 

 All that has been done for you and is part of our history. 

 Furthermore, we want you to understand that in A^irgina 

 there is no question before the American people that we have 

 not already fought out and settled. So that peace reigns 

 there, and inasmuch as it is for your interest and your future 

 prosperity to come and dwell among us, I felt that I ought 

 to tell you these few things, just by way of introduction, 

 about old Virginia. 



Now, you know there has been a good deal of talk about 

 subsidizing our steamship lines and building up a great mer- 

 chant marine. That was the favored scheme and purpose of 

 the late senator from Ohio, Mark Hanna. Lots of people 

 thought that was a new thing in the United States. \\'hen 

 you go down to Washington, as some of you may do, to attend 

 the inauguration, you want to go over to Arlington, on the 

 Potomac side of the river, and you will see over there a bronze 

 tablet giving the history of tlie first ship subsidy bill which 



