It would cost any one of these laborers or artisans to remove from his home in the Old World to one in the New not to exceed $50 or $60. For every such person who should come there would be room for one less American laborer. provided there is American labor enough to supply the demand for labor. The great attraction heretofore for emigration to this country has been that it is the land of liberty. home for the oppressed. and asylum of the exile. In addition. make it by undue stimulation the most attractive country for high wages and short hours for a days work. and how long would itbe before our home labor market would be overstocked from these beehives of industry beyond the power of legislation or the capacity of consumption to save American labor from the low wages of the Old World. To determine the point to which the increase of wages in this country can go and not produce such a result is the real solution of the problem of American wages.
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