The American laboring man now witnesses the product of his labor offered and sold to the consumers of his own country in direct competition with like and competing commodities produced in Europe and elsewhere abroad as a result of labor which receives a wage varying from 25 to 50 per cent of the wage which he receives. Not only this. but he sees the product of his labor brought in direct competition with the product of classes of labor in Europe and elsewhere which. under the laws of this country. he is no longer required to meet to any considerable extent here.. Into our ports from abroad is coming the product of child labor. underpaid female labor. pauper labor. and prison labor of Europe and Asia. True. we have undertaken to exclude a portion of these products. but experience demonstrates that such legal provisions are practically futile. There is no way by which the man in the customhouse in an American port can determine what class of labor entered into t.he production and manufacture of the merchandise offered for entry.
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