A manufacturer may be highly protected and may have a contract to produce a certain amount of goods. on which he can make a profit of 20 or23 per cent.. and yet he will hire his laborers to produce those goods as cheap as possible. This is human nature. and no human law can change it. And if a vessel should land at New York. loaded with pauper laborers. and they should go to this manufacturer and propose to work cheaper than his old emyloys. he would not hesitate to discharge his old hands. empoy cheap labor. and stick his protection in his pocket. The profits which an employer makes do not govern the prices he pays for labor. The carpenter who has a contract to build a house. on which he will clear $500. wilt pay no higher wa rs than thene who has a contract to build a house on which he will lose $.00.
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