The proposition that the reign of law and order and the security of life and property is best subserved by a juster and more equitable distribution of the productions of labor than now pertains ought to be regarded and acted upon as a great economic truth. but unfortunately it is not. We have not yet fully emerged from those social conditions which prompted Hobbes to say homto homini lupus. but who will undertake to say that the time is not fast approaching when man will find pleasure in being humane even to the wolfhomo lupo homo. The gentleman from lichigan has called attention to the importation of pauper labor by capitalists and mauufacturers. That was done. but I fail to see how the heartless cupidity and cruelty of these followers of Hobbes can be charged against the tariff. Let me vouchsafe to my friend some information of which he is perhaps not aware. When in the Fortyeighth Congress I was presenting to this House the merits of a bill which I had reported from the Committee on Labor. preventing the importation of pauper labor under contract. the word "demagogue" ever and anon floated to my cars in muttered whispers. and it was uttered and launched upon this not ambient but vaporladen air by gentlemen who are now advocating and supporting the bill under discussion. and whatever opposition that measure received came from friends of the Mills bill. It came from gentlemen whose knowledge of thegreat labor problem was derived from tableauxand object lessons. Ring up the curtain.
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