So far as I am concerned I wish to maintain the present level of wages in this country. I would not do anything that would diminish the price of the product which the American laborer makes. when that price is essential to the maintenance of the wage he receives. And here today. after years of legislation in protecting ourselves against the products of the cheap labor of other countries. in protecting ourselves by immigration laws. intending to exclude the inferior and cheaper classes of labor throughout the world. we deliberately take the. step which upon our contention will. and even upon your contention may. include within this Union 9.000.000 people with absolute freedom of access to your capital. with absolute freedom of access to the mother country. with absolute freedom of access to every part of our country. who will be invited here in swarms by speculators in labor. as were the Chinese to this country and as are the Japanese to Hawaii. What would be thought today of the proposition of annexing China and Japan and bringing them within our tariff wall? Why. the thinking men for years have dwelt upon the danger of arousing the productive capacity of the Orient.
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