Yet what utter nonsense it really is when you come to look at it. Does the Englishman. when he comes here. bring his rate of wages with him? I should like to see any immigrant who has been here long enough to know his bearings who does not demand as good wages as the rest. That is what they come here for. Only last week the Hungarians and Poles and Slavs in Pennsylvania were trying to break up all work in the coal mines because our native citizens under the stress of the Wilson bill were consenting to take less wages? Obviously these gentlemen did not bring their rate of wages with them. Why did we forbid the importation of contract labor? Because the price of it was tainted by the wage scales of a land on a lower level of wages. Let me restate this: Men in America demand high and higher wages because their surroundings erect what used to be luxuries into necessities.
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