While protection close the door to foreign goods it leaves it open for the introduction of foreign labor. The native Americans who were once employed in the New England mills were supplanted by French Canadians. and these in turn have been supplanted by Poles and Italians. Protection does not protect labor from the competition of these pauper foreign immigrants. Protection gives the manufacturer a high marketthe exclusive marketfor his goods in the United States. but it destroys his trade in foreign markets. and hence his mill at times must shut down. We can not sell an unlimited amount of our manufactures to foreign people when we. by a high protective wall. shut their goods out.
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