Work is scarce and wages low in the United States for the reason that during the twenty years ending June 30. 1892. we imported from foreign countries $12.988.320.940 worth of the products of the cheapest labor on the globe. an annual average of $649.416.047. about 75 per cent of which entered into competition with the products of American mills. mines. and workshops. During the twenty years preceding June 30. 1892. the gates of Castle Garden opened inward from Europe and 10.362.159 foreigners. who toil at wages that barely sustain life. left their homes of poverty and distress in freetrade lands to better their condition under production in the United States. It is estimated by the Commissioner of Immigration that every emigrant to the United States brings on an average with him. in actual cash. from fifteen to twenty dollars. Immigration of a certain kind to this country. under proper laws and restrictions. is not a detriment. The average number for these twenty years was 518.152 per annum. During all that time the Democratic party was proclaiming in Congress. in conventions. political campaigns. through the press. and on the stump against protection to American labor and industries and in favor of tariff reform and tariff for revenue.
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Foreigners toil at wages that barely sustain life.