But this objection has not ceased to have force. and that is that that amendment does not take account of the right of the seamen of this country to the same protection for their labor that all other labor has received under the protection policy of the Government. Why is it that this most important and deserving class of labor in this country is brushed aside in this way? Why i it that they are to be put upon the level of the Mongolian in the matter of their wages? Our Republican friends say they are the friends of labor. that their policy has builded up labor. that they want to conseive it and upbuild and uplift it in every possible way. Why. then. is it. my Republican friends. that you insist upon dropping the American seaman down to the level of the Mongolian seaman? Why is it you refuse to give him the protection he insists he ought to have in the American merchant marine? What reason is there for it?
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