And here again I say. in the name of protected labor. has a system been maintained that benefits the employer and not the employed. for with the very dollars wrung from the pockets of the consumers in this land and given as a bounty to the manufacturer. the manufacturers have gone abroad and imported foreign labor in direct competition with the earners of our own land. And when a strike came. when the American workingman demanded at least some share in this river of wealth that the last thirty years have poured into the pockets of the manufacturers. then these same manufacturers. knowing that they were protected by a tariff from foreign competition. knowing that foreign manufacturers could not take from them their customers and keep them by reasonof the high duty system. waited complacently until the American workingmen were starved into submission or soon brought imported labor to take the places of the striking employs. The very fact that the law forbidding contract labor was necessary is eloquent in showing that the manufacturers have over and over again imported the cheap labor of Europe to take the places of our citizens. and I desire to call the attention of the House to the fact that the original contractlabor law. making possible this infamous contract system that was for so many years pursued. was a Republican measure. and the laws protecting American labor upon the statutebooks of all the States and largely upon the statutebooks of the United States itself are Democratic enactments. Now. ir. Chairman. while the American manufacturer is protected by these duties and it is proposed to still further increase this protection by higher taxes upon the entire people of this land. there is no protection at all for the laborer from the competition of the foreign laborer. The vast army of immigration that each year has brought to our shores has absolutely deluged the labor market. and only by the most thorough system of labor drganizatiou is it possible for labor to win a single battle. The real condition of the workingman today in this country is that he pays a higher price for everything he buys in order that the manufacturer may be enabled to pay him a higher price for his days toil. and the manufacturer in turn gives him as little as possible for that toil. Well.
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European laborers are described as cheap labor used to undermine American workers.