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I am coming to that. I went to the census report to find out whether there was any danger of our workingmen being supplanted by this pauper labor in Europe. I found out from the census thatone man working at five or six dollars a day as a nailer would turn out 30 kegs of 100 poundseach by machinery. that while that poor old woman was working over yonder for 37.- cents a day to make 10 pounds of nails. one man here was sitting by and working a machine and making 3.000 pounds of nails. and that the cost of the labor in the United States was from onefifth to onesixth of a cent a pound. while the cost of the labor in Europe was over three cents a pound. And yet those nails are to be brought to this country to take the market away from us.