Speech #500039389

This illustrates the great fact that while. under the operations of a protective tariff. domestic productions are largely increased. yet in the distribution the laborers share. compared with that of the capitalist. is always relatively most increased. The reckless assertion has sometimes been made that the cheaper cost of living in Great Britain fully compensates for the lower rate of freetrade wages. In the thirtyfive years ending in 1887. 4.222.000 immigrants from the British Kingdom came into the United States. and their action brands the assertion as a colossal inveracity. The meaning of this is further accentuated by the fact that the total number of foreignborn residents in the United Kingdom at the last census was less than the half of 1 per cent. of the population. The British lowgrade wages and living breed discontent at home. and attract no Americans. but expelled last year 281.487 of their own subjects. of whom 72 per cent. came to the United States. and all are swift witnesses against freetrade fabrications.