Mr. HOGAN. I know that these singular facts are alleged. We know how terribly these manufacturers hate to tell about these things, that they are absolutely going to ruin. They want, of course, to stand fair before the community. They would like to ride in their car riages very finely; to drive fast horses; to build lovely palaces; but all these things are but a figment of the imagination to induce the people to believe that they are rich. When a revenue commission summons them before it to draw the facts out of them and it is like drawing eye teeth they are compelled to say “We havent made a red [laughter1 not a dollar; we have not been making a dime for the last ten years; we have been patriotically running large mills and increasing the productions of the country solely for the benefit of the country; of course we had no interest in it; we had better have nit 5 years ago, and then we would not have 0st the immense sums that we have lost during these last 5 yearsof terrible strife and war. No, sir, no; the gentleman cannot present such facts to me as coming from a source that would challenge my own unqualified belief. Not that I would doubt his wor for a moment, but “ facts are stubborn things, ” and all these men have shown that they are rich 5 they have been growing rich and have been fattening upon the very life blood of the American people, sucking the blood out of the people of this country, who are not protected by your laws. Why, sir, these men are constantly here asking for more protection constantly. There is scarcely a day passes that somebody does not come here asking increased protection, increased protection for anything, for everything. The man who makes 5,000 a year can manufacturer knows perfectly well that he can double his money if you will only give him a dollars additional duty on the article he manufactures; he will kneel for it, beg for it, urge it before the committees of Congress; and it is said that such men can afford to pay a little money to get these things done. I do not know how that is. I have seen nothing of that kind myself, but that is the allegation in the country. I know one thing, that plenty of men can afford to leave their business, and to leave all their affairs in the hands of others, and come here to log roll before Congress in order to get additional protection to put money into their poekets at the expense of the people. Now, Mr. Chairman, I have sai a great deal more than I intended when I rose, and I leave the subject with the House.