It is the commercial men. and mainly the importers. who want free trade. The manufacturers. as I said before. pretend that protection benefits the working classes. But that this claim is a mere sham is evident from the fact that they have never proposed to discourage the immigration of foreign workingmen. that. on the contrary. they have always done all they could to encourage foreign laborers to come over. that they have even sent agents to Europe to coax laborers by false pretenses. There can be no doubt that wages are better here than in European countries. but the causes of this fact have little or nothing to do with the tariff. The workman in highly protected Germany has somewhat the advantage. in wages and hours. over the workman in highly protected France.
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