You agree that no foreign labor can be introduced into our market without destroying therein an equal amount of our national labor.

Yet you assert that there is a host of merchandise possessed of _value_ (since it sells), which is, however, free from _human labor_.
And, among other things, you name wheat, corn, meats, cattle, lard, salt, iron, brass, lead, coal, wool, furs, seeds, etc.

If you can prove to me that the value of these things is not due to labor, I will agree that it is useless to protect them.

But, again, if I demonstrate to you that there is as much labor in a hundred dollars' worth of wool as in a hundred dollars' worth of cloth, you must acknowledge that protection is as much due to the one as to the other.

Now, why is this bag of wool worth a hundred dollars?
Is it not because that sum is the price of production?
And is the price of production anything but that which it has been necessary to distribute in wages, salaries, manual labor, interest, to all the workmen and capitalists who have concurred in producing the article ?" The RAW-MATERIALIST: "It is true, that in regard to wool, you may be right.