We should "protect" from all causes that tend to deteriorate the standard of citizenship. The early settlers were made up of the boldest thinkers. most adventurous minds. and the finest specimens of physical manhood of other nations. these mingling and intermixing has resulted in making the American citizen in all that goes to make up a great people the peers if not the superiors of any other nation. But today we are in great danger. from coming in contact with a lower type of more recent emigration. of lowering our standard. and such must inevitably be the result of compelling our people to enter into competition with a class of men any one of whom can live a week on a rat. The following statement of the scale of wages paid to workingmen in manufacturing counties and nonmanufacturing counties I think should convince all that the wiser. better. and safer policy is "protection." that it will foster manufictures and create diversified industries. and at the same time it can not fail to convince the farmers that they are not his true friends who denounce the "American system" and argue for "free trade or tariff for revenue only. The following official tables show the local variation of prices in each State. 0 r aa d Dolaars Aes Dolrs Alabama: N.
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Generalization that recent immigrants are of a 'lower type' and will deteriorate citizenship standards.