President. with a reduction of 31 per cent in duties. means that if the same revenue is to be raised under this bill which was raised under former laws there has to be a verylarge increase in the importation of foreignagoods. We are growing all the while. there are more and more hands to be employed. there are more and -more people who desire to work. Even if we were to have no further immigrationand the only thing that Ihave everheardsaid in favor of this system is that it will .prevent immigration. because the country will be so poor that nobody will want to come to it. even if we -were .to have no immigration. the number of our workmen will increase from year to -year. the number of our factories and the nffmber of our farms should be increased in order to give them labor. and the capacity of our farms and the capacity of our factories and our transportation facilities should be enlarged in order to give employment to the added number of persons who will desire employment. All -this is left unprovided for. On the other hand. this system contemplates a reduction in the amount:of goods to be produced in the United States either .in the factory or on the farm.-and yet .men call themselves patriotic who urge such -a measurea measure which will light up the forges in foreign lands. will set foreign workmen.at work. will empty foreign pauper houses of the paupers -and transfer them to the workshops. It is advocated by men who -call themselves -patriotic. yet every factorylighted up in a foreign land. the smoke issuing from the chimney of a factory in a foreign land means a factory darkened in the United States and the smoke of its chimneys no longer seen here. That means idle people computing the -number of those among us who now desire to -work. or more idle people computing the increase of people who -will desire to work.
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Immigration will make the country so poor that nobody will want to come to it.