Why. simply by taxing my labor which came in competition with yours. You had two ways of protecting yourselves against me. You could have levied so high an immigration tax as to have excluded me altogether. or. after permitting me to land. you could have imposed upon me an annual tax of. say. forty or fifty or a hundred dollars. Then while I would have been compelled to earn this money. getting it ready to hand over to the taxcollector. you Americans could in the mean time have earned the same amount and appropriate4 it to your own use. This would have been a protection for you against me.
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