Mr. HOGAN. The gentleman remarking not want to be interrupted and though I did not try to interrupt him, I will follow his example, and for the reason more especially that I am a new member and am not very familiar with this matter, and I do not want to get my head wool gathering, for I am not in the wool business nor in the iron business and as I have neither notes nor yet awritten speech, as those I follow mostl had, I would now prefer not to be interruptc. Now, sir, let me say, if notwithstanding the large duty imposed upon iron, there can be some little iron introduced, having more duty upon it you will prohibit entirely the importation of it, and then you will derive no revenue from that source. Now, I would be willing to say that we should have nothing but internalrevenue duties but in that case have no tariff. I would be willing that we should have nothing but an internalrevenue taxation. But. while we have this complex system of internal and external duties, and an apparent idea is held out to many that goods may be introduced into this country by paying a large tariff, and while by the system of duplex taxation, 1st a n the commodity and then upon the people who consume it, paying the internalrevenue duties thereon, we are crowding the people to death, the time is not distant when, ifpthis system is carried on, the people of this country will wipe out your tariifentirely, and say, “Let every tub stand on its own bottom.” By our tariff we invite from all the world articles we need for use; but yet, while the hope is held out to the people that by those duties on imports we are to ay the interest in great part upon our public ebt, yet by the high duties you impose you virtually prohibit importation, thereby precluding you from getting any or but little revenue from the tariff, and yet you on hance the price to the consumer, and enable the manufacturer to add the duty to his goods and thus put money in his ocket. Sometimes he crowds the price up so that the foreign commodity can 11 “(ml to ay the duty and come into the country, thus a lowing the people some competition; but instead ofreducing his profits, he comes at once to Congress and will be ruine less you give higher duty, more protection. Where, where will this stop? Mr. Chairman, I caution gentlemen to beware in reference to this matter. This thing has gone on, and gone on, and gone on, and the more you have given the more has been demanded of you. At every session of Congress there has been a demand for increased duties. You have propositions made in every Congress to increase the duties upon commodities manufactored by men who are counting up their 100s of 1,000s of dollars annually as income from manufactures that do not pay anything and yet need to be protected! I tell you, Mr. Chairman, and I tell this committee, that unless they think more of the demands of the geople and less of the demands of the manu cturers and monopolists, the will put on that feather which finally breaks the camels back and the people will crush out this thing of protection entirely.