Government to preserve these advantages for the people of America. We have known that this could not be done under modern conditions of cheap transportation if our own people were subjected to the competition of all the less fortunate people of the earth. The American laboring man can not compete in a free market with the Englishman. receivilig onehalf his wages. with the French and Germans. receiving onethird his wages. with the Belgians. receiving onefourth.his wages. or with the Asiatics. receiving a still lesser fraction of the American wage. For the American laboring man to compete with the foreigner he must do three things: He must accept the foreigners reduced wages. he must adopt the foreigners low standard of living. and. in the main. longer hours of labor. He and the Republican party are not willing that he should do any of these things. The gentleman from Alabama repeated the old and specious argument.that because of immigration American labor is subjected to the competition of foreigners. If the gentleman from Alabama thinks that the American laboring man suffers from the competition of a limited number of foreigners who come to this countiy to labor at American wages and spend their earnings in this country. how can he continue to advocate the theory which would subject the American laboring man to the competition of the hundreds of millions of Europeans and Asiatics who -work at smaller wages and spend their earnings in foreign countries? But while the Republican party has not hesitated to secure in the largest possible manner the natural advantages of America for the people in America. it has never undertaken to discriminate for any country but our own. Of late years. however. foreign countries. with the exception of England. have undertaken to secure for their people not only their home mar"kets by a protective tariff. but to.use a discriminative right in their markets as a club to compel other nations to give their people special privileges.
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