Fortunately. in connection with this item we do not have to deal with Germany. It is a matter of extreme relief to me to reach one item. out of the three or four hundred we have already considered. where we are not confronted by the other side with the specter of Germany. I do not know whether we are to be told or not to be told that when the present law was made imposing much more moderate duties upon these things wages were low in the Asiatic countries from which they came. and that though they were low then they are very much lower now. If. since the passage of the Underwood law. there has been any change in the scale of wages in the country from which the raw material comes. I have not heard of it.