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He pays back to the manufacturer $1.64of his wages for one dollars worth of the goods lie himself has manufa etured. In other words. his dollar of wages pays fbr 36 cents of goods. He is told that unless the manufacturers are protected he will be in the same condition of the pauper laborer of Europe. Protectionists are constantlyparading the condition of the laborers in the factories of England. They represent them as being in a most miserable and wretched condition of poverty and almost starvation. but occasionally we find a protectionist who has investigated the subject to learn lbr himself whether or not whathe has heard is true of their condition. and to make history true he speaks out that frankly which he has seen. A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. a protection paper. writing from Birmingham. England. which is one of the largest mnanuficturing places in the United Kingdom. says: And now let me say briefly. and once for all. that a careful inspection of the localities where working people most do congregate in this wonderful world of manufactures has proved to me. as itwill proveto any one taking similar pains. that here. where one expects to find pauper labor by comparison with America. there is it condition of comfort in habitation. clothing. and food which can not be exceeded in any Americanmanufacturinglocality. This maybe treasonbut if it is. toy protectionists friends tire at liberty to make the most of it. I do not assert that the condition of these wodcmems is what it ought to be.