Mr. WADE. I am not going to take up much time in replying to the argument of the Senfrom Iowa, because there is nothing new in it. Farmers do use grindstones, and they use tea and coffee and a great many.other articles that are taxed pretty heavily in this bill. So it is with people engaged in other pursuits. As I have said before, all these great interests hang together; they are mu tually dependent one upon the other. We are under the necessity of burdening the country with a taxation sufficiently large to pay the interest on our debt, and I hope gradually to decrease the principal. That is the necessity which we are compelled to submit t;o and yet the Senfrom Iowa talks as though we owed nothing and were under no obligation to bur den any part of the people with any taxes whatever. Nobody would be more rejoiced than I would be if such were the fact. My argument is simply that as we are compelled to lay these burdens upon the people, we ought so to lay them as to protect our own labor and our own industry in preference to foreign labor and foreign industry. That is all that I contend for. What the Senfrom Iowa has said about grindstones may be said of pretty much every article that is protected in this bill. There is no different doctrine to be applied to grind stones from any other articles of manufacture. I might just as well get up and argue, as the Senator has done, that if a commodity which is protected enters into the consumption of a great many people they will be burdened by the tax. T is very true; but this is no reason why you should not protect all the home interests that can be protected. You must balance protection with the obtaining of a revenue, I grant; but, as the Senfrom NewJersey has well said, what I contend for accomplishes both these objects. While it protects our own labor, it gives you a revenue, and one as little burdensome as that which you derive from any other commodity that you tax. It is for this reason that I imposed. ask that this duty be acknowledge that as to locality this interest perhaps affects my constituents more than others. not conceal it; I know that the stone out of which grindstones are manufactured is not very common in this country. There is a very good quarry, and I believe more than one, in Ohio, and there are several in Michigan. That, however, is no reason why I am to be considered as selfish when I seek to give the same protection to this interest that is given to others in this bill. Every interest that is protected must have a local habitation somewhere, and I am not the man to inquire in what particular part of the country it springs up.