The average American manufacturer is interested generally in two things. nanely. the highest protective tariff. and the cheapest labor. If lie can secure these all else desirable speedily follows. The lirst he has secured. the second lie can readily obtain through unrestricted Chinese immigration. if this measure shall be defeated. It is not difficult to perceive the origin of that political economy which suggests high protective tariffs. and %t the same time advocates the admission of servile laborers into the country without limit. It meaus high prices for the products of manufacture. and low prices for the labor which produces them. the aggrandizement of capital and the debasement of labor. greater wealth for the wealthy aid greater poverty for the poor. Bit it has been said that all the argnments we make against the admission of the Chinese cooly into direct competition with our free American laborer apply with equal force to the inmmirants who come from Europe. and that most of the objections we maNo against the Chinese apply to immigrants from beyond the Atlantic. particularly the Irish. Now. if this were true it would furnish no argument in favor of the introduction of Chinese. It might be an argument against the European immigrants. but it is not true. European immigrants are men of the like mental and physical characteristics of the American laborer. They are of the same or a kindred race. trained under a like civilization. with similar aspirations. hopes. and tendencies. Their wants and necessities are the same. and they confonim their habits. methods. and manners to these of the people by whom they are surrounded.
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