… is from page 192 of the Irish-born Democratic U.S. Congressman from New York William Bourke Cockran‘s speech to the National Liberal Club of England, delivered on July 15th, 1903, as this speech appears in In the Name of Liberty: Selected Addresses by William Bourke Cockran, Robert McElroy, ed. (1925):
A protective system, while in its terms it always pretends to be general, in the nature of things can benefit a few only, and this benefit must always be at the expense of the majority.
