To each of these amounts should be added $85.60. the value of necessaries funished the laborer without charge. Under the tenant system which prevails generally in the cotton region and is extending also to the sugar plantations the amount received by the industrious laborer is even greater. Besides the pecuniary advantages. !he climatic advantage reduces the cost of food and clothing far below what these items must cost the tarn laborer of the North. (Same report.) While so much sympathy is extended to the laborer of the North .and West. while so much protection must be afforded to him in order to protect him against competition from European illpaid and pauper labor. why are no tears of sympathy shed for the colored laborer on the sugar plantation in the South. who is exposed to competition from slave and cooly labor? From the Hawaiian Islands. under the socalled reciprocity. were imported in 1879 $2.811.192.61 worth of sugar. in 1880 over $4.100.000 worth. and in 1881 over $4.927.000 worth was imported free of duty. Where do the largest amounts of sugar imported come from?
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European laborers are ill-paid and paupers.