But the time is coming and coming soon. if we increase as fast as we have done in the last ten years. when that state of things shall have passed by. When the next census is taken we will have 65.000.000 of people. In twenty years from now (when the limitation fixed by this bill shall have expired) we shall have 85.000.000 or 90.000.000 of people. and instead of emigration westward it will perhaps set eastward. Then. when our population has become much more dense when its numbers shall have increased so that there is a surplus of laborers. as has always been the tendency in the older nations. when there shall be no outlet to new territories for the unemployed. thus reducing the glut of labor. then wages will fall as other commoditiesfall in a time of glut. Then we shall have to solve for ourselves this great problem which has perplexed England and other countries of the Old World so long. and which still perplexes them. and when it has got to that state then you will be face to face with the question.
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