And this is a part of the miserable inconsistency of the Republican party. They tell us in one breath that we are bound. tohave a tariff in America in order to make American wages higher than they are abroad. and in the very next breath they tell us that the reason for the tariff being in existence is that wages in America are already higher than they are abroad. In one breath. they tell us to shut out the products of pauper labor so that it may not decrease the wage of the American wageearner. and yet being acquainted. if they have any sense. with this economic law whicli I have mentioned. knowing that the result of its operation will be to invite laborers from all the world to come to America .where the highest wage price is. or to Canada. or New Zealand. or to Cape Colony or other countries with highwage points. knowing that the effect will be to make them come here. they do not put any tariff on the. labor itself. In other words. they are encouraging the free. auto-. ruatic operation of the law which furnishes in itself finally the check. to a standstill. of the condition which created the flow of labor. of the condition of scarcity of labor which gave and gives us higher wages. As the labor continues to come. density. of population here and in Europe will become equalized.
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