Mr. WADE. Well, Mr. President, I am very sorry to hear that that is the case. That shows still stronger that something ought to be done in favor of the laborer. If the fact is as stated the gentleman has told us the reason. It is because our wages, all things considered, are not as good as they are in Europe. That is the gentleman's answer to his own question. Of course they will not come here when they find that their pay is not as good as it is at home, and when they do come here and find rd to this article? our coast, with all that out they will go back. The Senator has answered himself perfectly on that subject. All I want is to give the laborera better chance here than he has abroad. I know that a great many men do come over from Canada and labor in the States. A great many of them are on our railroads in the State of Ohio. To my certain knowledge many of them have left their own homes and country and come to find better wages in our State, working on the railroads principally, and often at other occupations. But these men are not likely to leave their homes for manual labor. Very few of them can afford the means of traveling far to find work to do. It is very expensive to break up their business at home and to travel a great distance with an uncertainty of finding profit able labor when they get here. All these things tend to keep them from emigrating where they suppose they can get better wages. Indeed, the great mass of men who labor in this way cannot, if they would and were assured that they would have better wages, leave their homes to seek it and find it. That I suppose to be the great reason why they do not come. I have not read the letters I have received from the gentlemen who have written to me on the subject of this article of grindstones, because like the writers of the letters read by the Senfrom Maine they are interested in the manufacture of these stones. They tell me, however, that there is a detrimental competition between them and these laborers abroad. That is what they assert. Then those who want to get the grindstones cheap write to the genoleman and tell him they pay now more than they ought to pay. Those who furnish this evidence on each side are interested witnesses, and I do not rely so much upon them for that reason, as I find that everybody who comes here is endeavoring to promote his own interests; but I can see very clearly that under the condition in which things are now this interest wants protection as much as any other we have protected; and it rests, too, upon the same principle, say what you will. It may be asserted of every article that we protect that it will come dearer to the consumer. I suppose it will at 1st, although I have always contended and believe that the rivalry the business begets when it is protected generally brings, the price down infinitely cheaper frequently than it was without protection, and that happens from competition. I have nothing to say about that. I i. am not into the general argument; but I say this epends upon the same principle precisely. It is the same principle that governed what the Senator contended for about asphaltum. That was really a local interest. They found it existing in Nova Scotia in great quantities and easy to come at; but as there was a pretty heavy duty on the oil they found they could not manufacture it so easy in Nova Scotia and then bring it in because of the duty, and therefore, to escape that, they came and set up their establishments in Maine and brought the crude article there from Nova Scotia, and thus escaped the duty. That is not the way to raise revenue if it is the way to protect an article. It certainly is not the way if we are seeking for revenue alone. But, then, it is on the same principles exactly with this, and gentlemen may make the argument either one way or the other as suits the occasion. But what I ask for these articles of stone, brought from abroad in detrimental competition with our own labor, is that we stand upon the principle of protection in regard to them as well as anything else. It is true it is a rough article, but it is a very valuable one, and one exten sively brought in as a subject of labor, both here and abroad, and needs the attention of those who are legislating upon the subject to see that all interests are protected, and that with that protection the highest amount of revenue is obtained that can be obtained, having regard to the interests of all concerned. That is all I ask for, and this is about all I have to say upon the subject.