It is an admitted fact that. with very few exceptions. the labor in the unprotected receives higher wages than in the protected avoc.ttions. I appeal to the wagvworkers of the country to witness the fact that the accumulation of surplus labor in this country is const. ttly increasing and that the competition for 1.894. .work is growing more severe each year. The clamor for. a strict enforcement of the laws of immigration as well as the demand for the enactment of more stringent ones attest the truth of this fact. Nothing. in my judgment. has done so much to overstock our labor market as the enactment of prohibitory duties which exclude the people of other countries from obtaining our food products. and should we continue the same. nothing on earth can check the tide that is flowing inupon us. Our free lands all having been taken up. this immigration will drift into our cities to augment the ranks of the unemployed and increase the competition for work as well as the number to be supported by charity. I received. a few days ago. a letter from a constituent in one of tie protected industries protesting against the passage of this bili. It was gentlemanly in tone. and I think contained an hone.sa1 expression of the writers opinions.
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