They said: "Raw material is _devoid of all human labor_.

For that reason we should not tax it.

Fabricated articles can no longer occupy national labor.

We consider them the most taxable." We are not inquiring whether protection to national labor is reasonable.

The protectionist and the Bordelais agree upon this point, and we, as has been seen in the preceding chapters, differ from both.
The question is to ascertain which of the two--the protectionists or the raw-materialists of Bordeaux--give its just acceptation to the word "labor." Now, upon this ground, it must be said, the protectionist is, by all odds, right; for observe the dialogue which might take place between them: The PROTECTIONIST: "You agree that national labor ought to be protected.