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This is $2.75 per week with which to buy food. clothes. light. and fuel. and pay rent for each one of the 54. These are luxuries which the mill laborers enjoy under the :rich picking of a high protective tariff.. This is the condition -of affairs our American laborer is up against. and from his real American soul comes the plaintive cry to protect him. his wife. and children from this Immigrant - horde. There are thousands of evil consequences permeating every nook and corner of our country incident to these undesirables amongst us. A look Into the great hospitals and insane asylums of New York and other congested centers presents a picture of disease and insanity that is astounding.