The laborers and wageearners are paying more for the necessaries of life than they ought to pay. The manufacturers. who as a rule are rich enough already. are thereby amassing more riches. spending the warm season at the seaside. atd diversifying their pleasures by visiting the capital in the winter. on which occasion they combine business with pleasure. and seek a little more proteetion at the hands of Congress. Of course they tell us that they are seeking it from purely disinterested and philanthropic motivesfor the sole purpose of enabling them to pay better wages to their operatives and to enable them to compete with the "pauper labor" of Europe. The protection being granted. they immediately go or send some one across the Atlantic and make wholesale contracts with those same "pauper laborers." and import them to this country to work on low wages. and thereby drive our own laboring classes out of employment. Testimony taken by one of the committees of this House this winter and reported by its chairman. himself a protectionist. shows that such labor has been so imported into this country by some of these disinterested and philanthropic protected interests. Mr.
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