The wages of 600.000.000 people now living on the globe average from 1 cent to 6 cents a day. I know no better criterion of the condition of civilization than the rate of wages paid. While the United States was able to pay the best wages of any country in the world we were the proudest and happiest people in the world. but if the wages of this country must be reduced. not to the Asiatic basis of from I to 6 cents a day but to the European basis of from 50 to 60 per cent lower than the basis of this country. a fearful struggle awaits us. In making war upon labor. which the present laws require. we shall be putting free institutions to a test more severe than the civil war. more severe than anything which has preceded. I beg Senators here and now to think of the contest that is before us.
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Wages of Asian people are very low and threaten American wages.