Amacrican laborers? And yet where do the produ ets of their labor go? Are they protected against foreign pauper labor? On the contrary. by the very necessity of the situation (and it is growing more and niore so every year) are they not compelled -to sell their products and iivest their capital. whether it is labor or supplies. in strong competition with the pauper labor of the world? Is notthemanu who raises wheat in Dakota and hastosend it abroad. (for 36 per cent. of all the wheat raised in this country has to go abroad. and the foreign price controls the price of the whole crop.) must he not sell and buy in direct competition with all the pauper labor of Europe? This is true not only in all that he produces but in all that he uses or consumes. since what he uses or consumes must be paid for with what he produces. Seventy per cent. of all the cotton raised in the United States goes abroad. and everybody admits that the price in Liverpool controls the price in New Orleans? Are not all the laborers connected with the great cottongrowing interests competing with all the pauper laborers of the world? and many of them are very poor and needy people. Who does the Senator mean when he talks about the American laborer f Is he not requiring those people and their employds who send off their wheat. their cotton. their provisions. and other food supplies. 90 per cent. abroad of -all goods that are exported. to sell as cheaply as any European pauper will sell thb same. article in the same market. and yet not allo wing our citizen to buy what the people there are willing to give him in exchange for the things that he sells. as all other people are allowed to do. but requiring him to demand money. and come home and pay 50 per cent. more than what he gets is worth to the Bessemer steel monopolists and a few ether protected industries? Is that protection to American labor in any large or broad sense?
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