Why is labor discontented. why is its chief complaint low wages ? Accordingto the protection theory our workingmen should be the happiest in the world. yet. sir. I observe that the best that can be said for them is that they are better paid than laborers in Europebetter paid than "pauper labor." I observe. too. on all sides of this House. that the law of supply and demand is applied as ruthlessly to these beings with souls as to dumb brutesas if the great necessity of men is not their manhood. as if that is not always a factor in the question of their earnings. but. sir. under this law of supply and demand. the voice of their manhood cries to us. "Supply and demand does not satisfy our needs. your supply and demaid is bottomed on some false basis. It is not a supply and demand which gives us and our children the comforts of life. It is the sort of supply and demand which will do for people who go without meat or are content to live on black bread. or rats." If they are right. if this is so. what kind of a supply and demand have we ?
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