I venture to recommend to the honorable Senator and to the Senate that instead of trying to put what is called here a prohibi&ry tariff upon the introduction of foreign labor into this country they will reduce and modily some other of our prohibitory tarifibs so that these laborers can get raw material brought from foreign countries at cheaper prices. so that they can realize out of their labor in the markets furnished us thus by foreign countries a remunerative compensation. We have not got too much labor in this countrynor are we likely to have. The vast fields which are open now to settlement in our public domain. andwherewe extend an invitationfor settlemetto everyman who will come here and declare his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. are sufficient for the next txientyfive or perhaps fifty years to absorb the unemployed labor of all the civilized countries of Europe thathas any possible chance of emigrating to this part of the world. Our excess of labor is not a general thing over the country. Itis not an excess disproportioned to the magnitude or the strength of our country. but itis an excess of labor in respect of certain industries. certain mechanical pursuits. and only in respect of them.
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