It doesnt matter so much. for the purposes of this discussion. whether or not protection is a wise. economic policy or not. but.the point I make is that if you justify protection on the ground that it advantages American labor to protect his employer from having his goods put into competition with goods manufactured abroad. what have you to say to the Amercan workingman for your failure to protect him from the foreign laborer. who comes here to sell the same wares that are sold by the American mechanic. to wit. the product of his brain and hand? Can anyone doubt that if the Pennsylvania miner. for instance. were asked to compete only with American citizens his wages would be higher and his conditions of labor better than they are at present? Can anyone doubt but that if the American mechanic were protected against themillion or more immigrants which come to these shores each year. who are thrown into the bitterest kind of competition with him. he would not be able to get a larger share of his product than he now receives? I contend. Mr.
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