below cost what are they to do they cannot force at any price not utterly there is no demand at any rate they cannot upon england the mischief they must suffer � her and the other of the world are supplied and will bear but a limited pressure the foreign has created a of money as well as a of goods has largely been in payment which has compelled the banks to contract and deny their obligations must be met if tliey cannot make the will and must it is not merely their but their whole product which has been and made at a blow the end is easily foreseen our become and are broken up their works are brought to a dead stand the therein after spending months in constrained idleness are driven by famine into the western or into less productive and less congenial their acquired skill and dexterity as well as a portion of their time are a dead loss to themselves and the community and we commence the slow and process of and our industry on the one sided or agricultural basis such is the process which we have twice already how many shall satisfy us now will any man gravely ai e that we have five or six millions by this cheap purchase of british goods � hy buying where we could buy will he not see that though the price was low the cost is very great but the apparent saving is doubly for the british having utterly crushed their american rivals ly the grounds of protection one or two operations of this kind soon find here a market not for a of fifteen or twenty millions but they have now a demand for the amount of our whole consumption which making allowance for our diminished ability to pay would probably still reach fifty millions per this increased demand would soon produce and in the general market and now the foreign would say in their w have sold some millions worth of goods to america for less than cost in order to obtain control of that market now we have it and must our losses � and they them with interest they would have a perfect right to do so i hope no man has me as any of the of honesty on their part less of the laws of trade they have a perfect right to sell goods in our on such terms as we and they can afford it is we who set up our own vital interests to be down by their who are alone to be blamed who does not see that this sending out our great interests and to battle against the opposed to them in the of trade is to their destruction it were just as wise to say that because our people are brave therefore they shall any without fire arms as to say that the of other nations ought not to be opposed by us because our are skilful and our have made great advances the very fact that our are greatly extended and improved is the strong reason why they should not be exposed to destruction if they were of no amount or value their loss would be less disastrous but now the five or six millions we should make on the cheaper of goods would cost us one hundred millions in the destruction of property alone yet this is but an item of our damage the classes feel the first effect of the blow but it would every muscle of society one hundred thousand and discharged from our ruined after being some time out of employment at a waste of millions of the national wealth ai e at last driven by famine to engage in other � of course with inferior skill and at an inferior price the farmer gardener lose them as customers to meet them as rivals they crowd the labor of those branches of industry which we are still permitted to pursue just at the time when the demand for their has fallen off and the price is rapidly declining the result is just what we have seen in a former instance all that any man may make by buying foreign goods cheap he loses ten times over by the decline of his own property product or labor while to nine of the whole people the result is calamity the disastrous consequences to a nation of the mere and of its industry which must follow the breaking down of any of its great producing interests have never yet been sufficiently estimated free trade indeed us that every person thrown out of employment in one place or capacity has only to choose another but almost every working man knows from experience that such is not the fact � that the loss of a situation through the failure of his business is oftener a sore calamity i know a worthy citizen who spent six years in learning the trade of a which he had just in when an immense of hats utterly tie manufacture in this country he travelled and sought for months but could find no employment at any price and at last gave up the pursuit found work in some other capacity and never made a hat since he lives yet and now comfortably for he is industrious and but the six years he gave to learn his trade were utterly lost to him � lost for the want of adequate and steady protection to home industry i insist that the government has failed of its proper and duty to that citizen and to thousands and of thousands who have suffered from like causes i insist that if the government had permitted without complaint a foreign force to land on our shores and that man s house of the of six years of faithful industry tee grounds of protection the neglect of duty would not have been more and i firmly 