We afford protection to everything that is made by the hand of the laborer in this country. why should we not afford protection to the hand that performs the labor? Our tariff laws have only one object. and that is to obstructand restrict the importation of anything and everything that can by labor be produced in this country. Now. if the laborers in this country are affected by excessive immigration. why should they not be protected? The purpose of putting a tariff on a ton of steel rails is not to enrich capital or the manufacturer. but to compel steel rails to be produced in this country that our people may have employment at living wages. But under our present laws there is nothing to prevent people of other countries from coming here and entering into active competition with our own people in the labor of producing steel rails. There is no country on the face of the earth that receives annually so large a number of immigrants as ours. They come from all countries. with different notions. brought up under different laws. different customs. and different religious beliefs. They know nothing of the Fourth of July. and the sufferings of Wvashington at Valley Forge.
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Immigrants from all countries have different notions, customs, and religious beliefs and know nothing of American history.