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and as soon as possible. OF these MIR.
MCADOO saws:

MCADOO says:
"Such an immigrant is forced to come;
he comes sullenly and regretfully; he does
not come intending TO stay or TO be asslml-
lated; he comes under the pain and pinch
of a necessity which oUr laws nave forced
upon him; he lands here generally with
family dependent upon him and with little
or no means; and yet he is not pauper
within the meaning Of the law. He ling
ers where he lands unless an employer
selects him from the vast number OF our
own unemployed and pays his fare TO
distance because, in the free and unpro-
tected labor market. he has underbid the
native workman. Frequently he becomes
a chattel a serf, with number instead oil
d name, piece of brutalized, degraded.
human machinery, consigned in a freight
car to some great corporation"
He soon has his ideal of prosperity in
America shattered completely. He joins
the ranks of the disconnected, strikes,
stops the progress of industry and is
shot down by PiukertonS or the militia.
Again, suppose the foreign manufact-
urer who shuts up shop on account Of our
prohibitory tariff, instead of investing
his money in American realty, indus
tries and corporate interests, simply
transports his plant to this country.
Mr.. MCADoo asks:
Isit national blessing when these gen
tlemen move their manufacturing plants to
our country, bringing, despite our contract
labor law, q whole force of foreign work
ers. wrenched from their native land by the
action Of our tariff laws. Is their arrival
a benefit to American labor. In some very
highly protected occupations portion Of
the force consists Of foreigners who fol-
lowed a transplanted industry.
But the McKinleyiteS tell us the Amer
lean farmers home market is thus ex-
tended and he is thereby benefted-but
is he? Says Mr.. MCAD0O:
His prices are fixed in the land they left,
and he gains no money by feeding them in
New Jersey instead of Austria, Italy,
Wales France or England.
The situation is equally dangerous
should this foreign manufacturer close
his factory and invest his money in
America. The extent which this alien
landlorIiSm and control OF American
industries has already reached, is start
ling enough TO have called forth Wig
orous protests and warnings from states
men of both parties. Says Mr. Nc
AD00:
When this octopus of alien ownership,
largely encouraged by our commercial
warfare or mankind through abnormal
tariffs, comes 10 fasten its tentacles on the
lard, the republic will be in great danger.
The small freeholder the mainstay of
American institutions, will then give place
TO the wretched dependent of a foreign
landlord That landlord may in time con-
troll his tenants political actions; for the
true sovereign is the lord of the land, the
man who owns the soil on which others
live In that day our immigration bureaus
Will be spying out the foreign contract
tenant as well as the labOrer.
Who, then, in view of all these
known and proven facts, is benefited
by our prohibitory tariff? Certainly not
American labor Certainly not the
American consumer, TO whom the cost
of living is immensely increased. The
sole benefciarieS are few American
mOnOpOliStS and the foreign capitalists
who are cute enough to invest their
wealth in these subsidized American in
duStries and live in ease off the product
of their American workmen.