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Well, the morality of that argument can be fairly illustrated, I think, in this way: If a boy of a numerous family should cross a wide desert and find at the foot of a mountain an old man with a family of children, possessed of vast wealth in gold, jewels, horses, and cattle, and should return to his brothers and say, "There are nine of us and I believe if we go together, we can overturn the old man, who is not fit to bring up those children anyway, and rob him of his wealth, and I think it wil...l be a profitable venture, and they should start out and accomplish that act, it seems to me they would stand upon exactly the same plane as the man who stands upon this floor and advocates taking all the Philippine Islands be- ° But Mr. President, trade does not follow the flag. If it be true that trade follows the flag, then England's trade with her colonies ought to be a good example and an argument in its favor, mat ought to settle the question. Trade follows the best markets and England's experience is a refutation of the doctrine that trade fol- l0 Letus Si; The total imports to England in 1856 were $860 - 000, 000 from all countries, and from her colonies and dependen- cies, $215, 000, 000.
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