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THE NEGRO AND THE TARIFF
By Cornelins A. Hughes, Esq.

[image: Photo of Cornelius A. Hughes, Esq.]

Cornelius A. Hughes Discusses the Tariff
AND WHY COLORED MEN SHOULD FAVOR ITS REDUCTION

Secretary of the United Colored Democracy Says the Democratic
Party and Its Nominees Stand Pledged to Its Reduction.

"Never fear freedom in any form, for to you it is life and hope
and everything that goes to enlighten and ennoble."

It shall be true as long as we live that he serves his party best who
serves his country most; I do not care who a man may be; I do not
care what his prejudices may be; what his long devotion and attach-
ments to his party may be; in the hour when he knows that his party's
direction is antagonistic to his country's interest, he is unworthy of
citizenship if he does not turn his back upon that party and his face to
the country

There can be no law, however good, which does not work a hard-
ship upon some one; for instance, the law for the punishment of crime
works a hardship upon the criminal; but the measure of all good laws
is gauged by the greatest amount of good they do to the greatest
number of people they govern.

The question of a protective tariff and its effect upon the various
industrial groups of this country is one that will admit of a wide
range of argument, but when applied to Negroes, as an industrial

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