He forgets. or has never learned. that scarcely anything is immutable into which enters the heart and mind and emotions of humaniiy. The personal equation plays a large part in all things which human beings affect by their own actions. "Raise wages by law. make yourself richer by taxation." says the free trader. bringing out again his little collection of epigrams. "It is like lifting yourselves by your boot straps." And then he fancies that he has answered the whole case. And while he thinks he has settled the universe in this simple fashion. the plain sense of the American workingmen has shut out Chinese labor and contract labor. and will in no long time shut out the imported products of that same labor. Let us pass beyond the action of the Government in regard to the letalone theory and consider the action of men. Let us look for a moment at the attitude of the individual man when the letalone doctrine meets him in practice.
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