Can the carpenter -ply his trade beforehe Is furnished with lumber. -and can hebe furnished with lumber until the tree Is -cut down by the .hand of -an unskilled workman? .Can a bricklayer be paid $6 a day for laying brick if -some unskilled -workman is not found to carry his bricks? .Does anybody suppose ho could be paid at that rate if he had to carry his -own bricks? Is there any skilled laborer in the -world that can work until the raw material .of his product is furnished to him as the .theater -in which his craft must be exercised? Yqs . the immigrant does displace the native labor. for this basic labor must be employed before any industry is possible. The -immigrant performs that basic labor which is the fountain of all industry. He does displace the native laborer there. but how.? He itakes the native laborer on his back and lifts him up to a higher plane. .where he gets better -wages. And as the immigrant straightens himself under the influence of the better conditions he -is enjoying he is lifting the native skilled labor higher and ever higher. to better conditions and -higher wages. *Mr. President. what other objection is. made to this policy that would justify us now in abandoning it? Why. without this stream of immigrants coming in here the supply of commodities would be so diminished that not merely would skilled labor -be deprived in a large degree of the materials on which it exercises its craft. but generally. throughout the whole world. there would be a diminution of the supply of commodities. so that the cost of living would go still higher while the rate of wages would necessarily go -lower. This work must be performed or all industry must end. and this laborer. this immigrant. is coming :here in streams to perform it so that the native laborer may gain higher wages. He is. Mr.
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