Chairman. the gentlemail knows that we do not often find Democrats consistent. anyway. but I will say that I do not think that we should admit either the goods made abroad or the men. women. and children who come here from abroad in greater quantities than we can assimilate with advantage to our own people. It should be remembered that most of them who come here cut wages to get a chance to make the goods here. so that the opportunities of our own people for employment are reduced whether the foreigners come here or stay on the other side and send the products of their labor over here. Consistency requires that if we give protection to the man who pays the wages we should also give protection to the man who earns the wages. which means. of course. restriction of imports as well as of immigration. If the one proposition is sound ceo1914.. nomically. the other Is also. I could give many illustrations of the inconsistency of gentlemen on both sides of the House on these two propositions.
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