In addition to this. Mr. Speaker. a tariff properly adjusted fosters home industries. develops the great resources of our country. invites immigration. gives employment and fair wages to multitudes of our people. It is no reproach to the skill and enterprise of American workmen that they are unable without Government protection to compete with the labor of other countries. Let it rather be the boast of our manufacturers and of all our citizens that there is no desire to rival any nation which finds a profit in the oppressive and halfpaid industry of its toiling people. Admit. for the moment. that a protective tariffincreases the price of the manufactufd article and is to that extent a tax upon the consumer. who is there would be relieved from that tax at the expense of the comfort. the health. the happiness of the beneficiaries ? Who would want to see American workmen degraded and debased to the level of pauper labor ? Who would like to read of American women that "they work day and night toil and slave. so long as they can get something to satisfy their halfstarving families?" Who would want to buy. even at a lower price. nails and spikes and chains made by a nursing mother laboring ten hours a day and receiving $2 per week I Yet this is the lamentable account of the miserable condition of affairs in Lancashire. Civilization. humanity. decency. blush at the recital I We want no such experience in this country.
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