So far from consulting it. you would impose taxes on labor that you may further oppress it. under the plea of "trade expansion." by bringing into competition with it the lowestpaid labor in the world. Our present colonial policy. which so vitally and adversely affects labor. received its full measure of encouragement by a taxation of the masses to augment the surplus in the Treasury. The toilers who bear the taxation are made to feel the heavy hand not only in taxation. but in appropriations. to bring within our domain and hold Asiatic and tropical peoples who will dispute with them in all the walks and avenues of labor. From earliest time there has been a conflict for supremacy between those of the race well favored with worlds goods and those who struggled for subsistence. At first this conflict was waged by force of arms.