A large proportion of these industries protective principle is to be entirely eliminated from our tariff. and free will be more or less affected by the reduction of duties as proposed by trade to prevail. every mechanic and workingman in our mills. furnaces. this bill. for the decrease of duties will be followed by an increase of imand other classes of manufactories may at once prepare for a reduction portations. and will not only displace that amount of our productions. of wages corresponding to those of lbreign countries. If they do not. but will lessen the demand for our home labor and will lower the wages every cotton and woolen factory. every rollingmill and forge will stand of the workingman. idle. and even with submission. poverty. degradation. and. in some in- Should the proposed reduction of 20 per cent. result in the displacestances. starvation will be its sequel. ment of our products of labor to such an extent as to force down wages Selfpreservation is the first law of nature. Therefore to protect our- only 5 per cent. to meet the foreign competitor. it would result in a selves against the pauper labor of foreign lands can be no crime. Some loss to the American artisans and mechanics of ntarly $50.000.000 per one has said that "protection is Pennsylvanias birthright and we do annum in their wages. To this.
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