My heart is full of appreciative sympathy for him and his household as they gather around their troubled fireside. often in penury. sometimes in actual want. and never inecase or afiluence. but I have never yet conceived it a remedy for his privations and anxieties to increase the tax on his blankets and bedclothing. or on his salt and meager tableware. while his employer. for whose profit such taxes are paid. is left wholly free to fix his wages. reduce them to the starvation point. or deprive him of work altogether. If the laborer is compelled to pay taxes on all he and his family consume for the benefit of his powerful employer. it would seem but just that the employer should also be compelled to give work to the laborer at wages sufficient to support in comfort him. his wife. and his children. The President expresses his solicitude for the welfare of the American laborer and points out the vigilant care his interests should receive in the treatment of the tariff in the following terms: It is also said that the increase in the price of domestic manufactures resulting from the present tariff is necessary in order that higher wages may be paid to our wormngmen employed in manufactures than are paid for what is called the pauper labor of Europe. All will acknowledgetic force of an argunsent which involves the welfare and liberal compensation of our laboring pebple. Our labor Is honorable in the eyes of every American citizen. and as it lies at time foundation of our development and progress. it is entitled. without affectation or hypocrisy. to the utmost regard.
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