It is claimed that one man now accomplishes as much work in manufactures with the aid of machinery as seven formerly did without it. The invention of machinery was not the resultof ahigh tariff. but of the protection afforded by our patent laws. While we have been increasing our productive capacity by the invention of machinery we have increased the number of our laborers over 30 per cent. by immigration. What. then. is our condition today? Upon one hand we have invented laborsaving machinery and upon the other we have been receiving large acquisitions of laborers from forcien countries until today we can produce more than we can consume. My object in calling attention to the inventions of machinery and the large immigration is not to find fault with either. 1 am in favor of stimulating the genius of our people. I an in favor of receiving tlme honest. ablebodied immigrant who comes here to find shelter from the tyrannies and oppressions of his native land. Miy purpose in calling attention to them is to establish a fact upon which to construct. if I am able. a logical argument. While we have by these methods increased the number and capacity of our laborers until they are able to produce. in many lines. more than we can consume. we have been constructing a wall around our coast which. year by year. month by month. and day by day. restricted more closely their market within our own boundaries.
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