Now. why is it that Great Britain has. next to America. the highest wage scale? Because the British nation possesses. next to America. a larger body of fertile and cheap land than any other country upon the globe. and although those lands are in Australia. in Cape Colony. and in Canada. still it is true that there is hardly an Englishman who has not a cousin or a brother or a father or a son that has gone to the colonies. So that is just like moving from Connecticut to Ohio. or from Ohio to Mississippijust like our interstate immigration movements. As long as you can keep down the supply of labor in the factories and in the mines by keeping a safetyvalve of escape toward the farm and the field. towards cheap land to buy or to rentas long as you can maintain a "land vent." so long are you going to have high wages. and when you can not. when you have settled this country so densely that you can not do that. your wages will not possess the advantage that they do today. nor any advantage. except that proceeding from organized labor. in union. intelligently and firmly directed. Now. there is another reason.
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