The rate of wages is from 50 to 100 per cent. higher here than in any country in Europe. and in some industriesmuch higher. The President does not dispute this. but appeals to the manufacturer. who has been represented as a robber. a conspirator. and extortioner. not to reduce the wages of the workingman. but to pay him out of " surplus profits profits very often found on the wrong side of the ledgerprofits yielding on the average less than legal interest on money. What workingman does not feel that this is sheer mockery. and that the inevitable result is to reduce his wages by inviting a close competition with pauper labor? He must share the fate of his employer and divide with him the loss. The allsufficient answer to the President is that the American laborer does not travel eastward across the ocean to better his condition. but the European laborer comes to America. where labor is respected. and the laborer is better fed. paid. and clothed than in any part of Europe or Asia.
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