C. extra superfine ------------.50 Manchester (stouts)-----------571 Saxony rugs. 41 each --------- 7.00 Axminster ------------------ 1.35 Saxony rugs. 30 inches each... 5.50 Kandahar ------------------- .724 This is from the public price list of American manufacturers and dealers. and shows that an American consumer pays from 200 to 300 per cent more for this same article. of lie grade and quality. than the foreigner has to pay for itand that. too. after freights and charges have been deducted. It is difficult to conceive of a greater crimeI use the word advisedlyagainst the rights and liberties of this American people than they suffer under the operation of this infamous class legislation embodied in the present McKinley tariff act. It forces the common laboring element of our country. which is its most vital part as a nation. to pay tribute to the few rich monopolist class. the manufacturers. but under its protecting care. as we have demonstrated. these favored infants and wards of the Government are able to ship their products into the markets of all Europe and place them in fatal competition with like articles produced by the socaled pauper labor of those- countries. Is it any wonder then that these pauper laborers. finding themselves deprived of work at any price. should at once seek the country where work would seem to be so plentiful? Let the statistics of our immigration bureau answer this question. Thousands and tens of thousands of the poorest of the population of Europe have flocked to our shores since the present tariff bill went into offect. whose starving conditioncompelled them to get work at merely nominal rates. thus displacing a like number of our own native citizens. and enabling the unscrupulous manufacturer to make a horizontal cut in wages. owing. as he states. to a stringency of the times. Its real cause lies deeper.
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