I think that at some time during the discussion of this bill I shall introduce .n amendment to the bill to the effect that whatever difference in price accrues to any manufactured article produced in this country under this bill shall be given to the labor employed in Its production. or at least a certain percentage of it. and I will make provision in my amendment that the Federal Government shall indicate the proper officer to see that that is done. If we are doing this for labor. let us write labor in this bill and see that they do get it. Instead of giving it to the manufacturers and saying to them. "We are going to protect you against the competition of the pauper labor of foreign countries in order that you may give a decent American wage to American labor." let us. as honest men. put it Jin the bill and make provision that it shall be carried out.. Here is a laborer. and lie pays $63.48 of actual money out of his pocket for the privilege of .giving New York three carloads of watermelons. besides his land rent and his fertilizer and his time and his money that he spent in producing them. We can not sit here and do this thing forever and forever. with a constituency feeling the grind of the unfairness and the inconsistency of this condition. without danger to us and danger to the Republic.
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