How can they help the American farmer by destroying his home market and crippling the buying power of the consumer of his products? The standard of living of the American wage earner. the highest in .the history of the world. can not possibly be maintained under anything but a protective tariff. The hordes of cheap European and Asiatic labor might just as wel be freely admitted to our shores to compete with American labor as to take down our tariff wall. Cheap foreign labor can compete no less surely on its own shores as on our own. The Democrats were honest when they said.
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Hordes of cheap European and Asiatic labor might just as well be freely admitted to our shores to compete with American labor as to take down our tariff wall.