Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 203 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):

Now, there are two conditions essential to prosperous commerce – the right to dispose of what you have to sell in the highest market, and to purchase what you need in the lowest market. Your right to sell in the highest markets has been restricted by adverse tariffs. But because your opportunity to get the highest prices for the things which you have to sell is restricted by foreign governments, should you now be deprived by your own Government of the right to obtain what you need at the lowest prices? Would not this be an attempt to cure an injury from a foreign country by inflicting a graver injury upon yourselves?