It is not cheap labor. or cheap blankets. or cheap things generally that our people so much requireas good wages and the simple protection that will enable them to develop the resources within their reach. and through home demand and fair competition have a home market better and more certain than all the other markets of the world. If Great Britain. with free trade. has the market of the world for her manufactures. and is therefore prosperous. as you gentlemen claim. why is this prosperity not general among the laboring classes. and why are they coming to this country by thousands. where their blankets. according to the statement of the revenue reformers. will be taxed in such an outrageous manner? During the year ending June 30. 1887. the immigration into the United States ftom Great Britain reached the large number of 161.748. and for the ten years ending on that date the immigration from the same source was 1.237.256. These people certainly came here to better their condition. Had the advantages in favor oflaborbeen greater there than here. the immigration would have been the other way. The fact is. as every one knows. that labor is better paid and wageworkers better fed here than elsewhere. The gentleman from Ohio . in his able speech delivered in Boston on the 25th of March last. before the Tariff Reform League and the Home Market Club. in favor of protection. furnished interesting statistics concerning wages here and in Europe.
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