That tariff operates and is intended to operate to increase the wages of the men and women in this country. That very increase of wages is an inducement to the laboring men and women of other countries to come here and compete with our own people for these increased wages. Our laboring people would be better offmuch better offif you could give them the exclusive labor market of the country. and not force them into competition with the cheap pauper labor of other countries. We have been legislating for the producer. and properly so. It is high time that we begin to legislate for the man and the wonian whose only capital is the ability to do a days work.
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Laboring men and women of other countries are cheap pauper labor.