The goods are manufactured in India. and here is the scale of wages which Mr. McCampbell says is paid by those who manufacture the goods: A carder gets 89 cents a week. a rougher $1.85 a week. A spinner gets $1.40 a week: a winder gets $1.91 a week. a beamer gets $2.07 a week. a weaver gets $2.84 a week. a coolie gets $1.19 a week. The American people are importing about 1.000.000.000 yards of jute burlap from India every year and selling it in competition with American cotton goods. while our spindles stand idle. our labor is unemployed. and our cotton brings less than its cost of production. Now. gentlemen. we can remedy that situation by either creating a sentiment against it or by legislating against it. I am in favor of either. I am not advocating it. nor do I favor it. but we can help conditions by amending our immigration law and increasing the supply of labor for the industrial enterprises. If we import labor from foreign countries we would cheapen the cost of production and reduce prices of manufactured articles which the farmer uses. But this would flood the country with undesirable aliens and would disrupt our social fabric. I would not favor this. I simply mention what can be done by legislation.
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Importing labor from foreign countries would cheapen the cost of production and reduce prices of manufactured articles which the farmer uses, but this would flood the country with undesirable aliens and would disrupt our social fabric.