er to an aggregation of individuals, the accomplishment
of some public good should justify the giving of that power; and
whenever a corporation becomes subversive of the very end for which
it was created, the Government should put an end to its life.

So I believe that after these matters, these issues have been
discussed--when something is understood about the effect of a
tariff, the effect of protection, the laboring people of this
country will be on the side of the Republican party. The Republican
party is always trying to do something--trying to take a step in
advance. Persons who care for nothing except themselves--who wish
to make no effort except for themselves--are its natural enemies.

_Question_. What do you think of Mr. Mills' Fourth of July speech
on his bill?

_Answer_. Certain allowances should always be made for the Fourth
of July. What Mr. Mills says with regard to free trade depends,
I imagine, largely on where he happens to be. You remember the
old story about the _Moniteur_. When Napoleon escaped from Elba
that paper said: "The ogre has escaped." And from that moment
the epithets grew a little less objectionable as Napoleon advanced,
and at last the _Moniteur_ cried out: "The Emperor has reached
Paris." I hardly believe that Mr. Mills would call his bill in
Texas a war tariff measure. He might commence in New York with
that description, but as he went South that language, in my judgment,
would change, and when he struck the Brazos I think the bill would
be described as the nearest possible approach to free trade.

Mr. Mills takes the ground that if raw material comes here free of
duty, then we can manufacture that raw material and compete with
other countries in the markets of the world--that is to say, under
his bill. Now, other countries can certainly get the raw material
as cheaply as we can, especially those countries in which the raw
material is raised; and if wages are less in other countries than
in ours, the raw material being the same, the product must cost
more with us than with them. Consequently we cannot compete with
foreign countries simply by getting the raw material at the same
price; we must be able to manufacture it as cheaply as they, and
we can do that only by cutting down the wages of the American
workingmen. Because, to have raw material at the same price as
other nations, is only a part of the problem. The other part is
how cheaply can we manufacture it? An