The law should not prescribe the form of garments we should wear nor the food we eat. These will regulate themselves according to our wants. and so will labor become diversified to meet the wants of trade. But the greatest argument used by protectionists is that it is unjust to submit our industries to competition with what they are pleased to call "pauper labor of Europe. " This argument. if it can be called an argument. is used to frighten the laboring classes into the support of the protection ticket. but there is no truth in it. The three industrial States that derive most profit from the protective tariff levied to keep up the wages of American labor arc Pennsylvania. New York. and Massachusetts. and these are the three States in which the greatest number of labor strikes occur and in which they involve the Largest number of persons and last the longest.
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