104 A PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND EXPORTS. 



dustry. We hire cheap foreign labor to convert raw materials into 

 finished products for our use, instead of bestowing the employment 

 upon labor at home ; doom a multitude of our people to partial 

 idleness ; reduce the general rate of wages ; cripple the productive 

 forces ; and compel a shrinkage in consumption. Therefore our 

 manufacturers require a high Protective tariff, because it will give 

 them possession of their home market ; our laboring classes re- 

 quire it, because it will secure for them full employment, with 

 good pay; and our whole people require it, because it is conducive 

 to substantial and permanent prosperity. 



