<P> Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave . Protection is but the law of nature, the law of self - preservation, of self - development, of securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man . (It is said) that protection is immoral...Why, if protection builds up and elevates 63,000,000 (the U.S. population) of people, the influence of those 63,000,000 of people elevates the rest of the world . We cannot take a step in the pathway of progress without benefiting mankind everywhere . Well, they say,' Buy where you can buy the cheapest'...Of course, that applies to labor as to everything else . Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim:' Buy where you can pay the easiest .' And that spot of earth is where labor wins its highest rewards . </P> <P> (Free trade) destroys the dignity and independence of American labor...It will take away from the people of this country who work for a living--and the majority of them live by the sweat of their faces--it will take from them heart and home and hope . It will be self - destruction . </P> <P> He also rejected the "cheaper is better" argument outright: </P> <P> They (free traders) say,' Buy where you can buy the cheapest .' That is one of their maxims...Of course, that applies to labor as to everything else . Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim:' Buy where you can pay the easiest .' And that spot of earth is where labor wins its highest rewards . </P>

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