The greater the competition between laborers for work. the greater the number of laborers clamoring for the job. the lower the wages. No protected manufacturer. no matter how earnestly he may plead for protection to the wageearner on the floor of Congress. was ever yet known to hid against himself in the labor market and pay $1.25 per day when he could hire a man to do the same work for $1 per day. XXI293 Pass this bill. gentlemen. and it will not be long before you will have to face the problem of suppression of immigration. You cry out now " check imports. are you ready to cry out "check immigration?" Dare you assume the r6le of the KnowNothing party of old? Yet "check imports" and you can not escape. dodge it as you may. its natural consequence. the stoppage of free immigration. Alas! to what desperate straits has "the grand old party of lofty moral ideas" been driven. when. at the demand of the cormorants who I now dominate it. the Ways and Means Committee report a bill the avowed purpose of which is to prohibit and destroy imports. and therefore to annihilate the little foreign trade which is left us. and almost on the same day the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries brings in a bill proposing to give 30 cents per ton for every thousand miles sailed by any ship flying the American flag. This is a subsidy. this is a gift absolute and outright from the Treasury. of the peoples money. and it is.estimated that the sum required would reach six millions of dollars per annum.
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