Were it not so. Mr. Chairman. instead of bringing into this country in great numbers pauper laborers of Europe to take the place of American laborers. our protection friends would join in the movement to put a high protective duty on such labor importations and thus show themselves not only the friends of the laboring man but consistent protective tariff advocates. And the laboring man is not such a fool as not to know that it is a much graver crime against him and his family to import pauper labor to drive him out of business or bring him down to starvation wages than it is to import merely the product of that pauper labor. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent by these protected industries in prepar. ing arguments bristling with statistics to show the blessings of taxing one class of people to sustain the business of another class of people. and great enterprise and ingenuity. without regard to expense. is exhibited in placing these arguments where they will do the most good. They are made to appear as original matter in an editorial way. as the disinterested sentiments of the editor. and they are sent in season and out the year round into the homes of the farmers and others of their victims in order to hold them in a state of repose.
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