Mr. WADE. It is not my object to put what is called a high duty on these articles. I do not know but that 5 dollars a ton is too high. I have no means of knowing exactly; but I do not want the duty to be excessively high. I want it to be in harmony with the protective duties we place upon articles generally. I do not ask for anything more than that. In arguing this question here gentlemen speak of its being a hardship to the manufacturers to pay these duties. I think that argument is so nar row that it does not cover the whole ground. If you put a duty on grindstones it will be distributed through the whole community so far as they use any commodities into the price of which the use of grindstones in any form enters as an element. If grindstones are dear and manufacturers have to use them and pay a high price for them, the articles they manufacture will be enhanced in price in proportion to that element of expense, and so the duty will be distributed through the whole community and all the consumers will help to pay it. It does not fall particularly upon those who manufacture or produce the article, but on the great body of consumers the whole country over. Gentlemen are apt to argue these questions as though the whole burden fell upon the party on whom the taxis 1st levied. If that were so we should create a great many hardships that would be i. oft. if taxes fell with their full weight upon particular classes of the community and had not this tendency to distribute themselves among all. But if the price of a manufactured article is enhanced by this duty the community who consume the article all have to contribute toward the burden at last; but that consideration seems in the argument to have been lost sight of. It seems, as I knew before, that the Senfrom Maine confines himself, in his view upon this question, to the locality in which he lives. In the aggregate the production of this article employs a great many workmen, and it is just as important to protect them as any other class. A duty imposed on grindstones is not a burden falling upon anyone interest, but it will be distributed, as I have said, through the whole country. The Senator's constituents are in close proximity to the British Provinces, from which grindstones can be readily brought to come into competition with those produced in our own country; and the cost of labor is so much less there as I think to be a sufficient argument in favor of the amendment. It seems to me that the fact that the use of grind stones is so general throughout the country only tends to prove that this burden will be generally and equally distributed throughout the country, al will not fall with crushing weight upon any class.