And. mark you. it was not the socalled protected labor of our factories in the East that was commanding this very high price. but the unprotected labor of the "Western States." Mir. President..the enactment of tariff legislation from 1860 to 1864. with the act of 1867 added. created substantially the system which is in force today. Who will declare. who can declare that the protection of labor or the promotion of its wellbeing had any place in the minds of men in these tariff enactments when in the very same day and hour they were providing for the importation of foreign contract labor on the ground that labor was commanding a very high price in this country? Strangely enough. the first tariff bill introduced by Mr. Madison. when. as President Harrison says. labor was scarce and fully employed. in 1789. bore date the 4th of July. as did also the act which Mr.
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