Show what garfield thought jt it is very refreshing sometimes to pause a awhile in the tight against tariff extortion and while taking breath to wit the protection bull with some rag lilo like this from ono one of garfielda Gar fields speeches 11 we have seen that one extreme school of economists would place the price of all manufactured articles in the hands of foreign producers by rendering it ill impossible 1 for our manufacturers to compete with them while tho the other extreme school by making it impossible for the foreigner to sell his competing wares in our market would give the people no immediate check upon tho the prices which our manufacturers might fix for theil products 1 I disagree with both these extremes I 1 hold that a properly adjusted competition between homo home and foreign products is ia the best gauge by which to regulate international trade duties should be so high that our oni manufacturers ran can fairly compete with the foreign product but not so high g ai to enable them to drive out the foreign article enjoy the monopoly of alio trade and regulate tho the prices as they please this is my doctrine of protection if I 1 congress pursues ties this hue hike of protection steadily wo we shall year by year approach more nearly to the basis af free trade because wo we hhall be more nearly able to compete with other nations on oil equal terms 1 am ain for a protection which Vl lih leads to ultimate arce trade I 1 lan am for r that free trado trade which can only bo be achieved achie veil through 1 1 reasonable protection had Garfi garfied clil been a member of the fifty first congress he be could not have been whipped into line by mckinley AIcKin ley i ife ho would not have talked against the mckinley bill as butterworth lid did but he would also have voted against it which butter butterworth worth did not |