Here. as in every country in Europe. be presents for consideration the social problem of the age. of which his own life is apart. anduno man has solved it or can. Add this now element and who shall measure or answer his demands ? At the meeting of the diplomats at Berlin the danger to European civilization by the introduction of Asiatic troops was seriously considered. The contest on our soil by Asiatics for bread is an infinitely greater peril to us and Our civilization. Let me repeat. reiterate. and if I can impress. that in a new country where labor is in the greatest demand any form of labor is welcomed as an additi n to the common stock. but as the field fills up. as labor ceases to b ouht but is compelled to seek employment. the cheapest labor brings all others to its own level of wages or drives it out. It ceases to supplement. it substitutes. To bring American labor to the Asiatic level is to ask the American laborer to abjure home and family and to aubstitnte at once for his own character that which the Asiatic has inherited through the blood of a hundred geperations. We are often compelled. from the necessities of language. to speak of labor as an abstraction. It is not.
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