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the masses, and successfully. The
great Snowman, Barnum, said the
American people like to be deceived,
and be told the truth. Protection
is pretty word--rolls smoothly
under the oratorical tongue, and
does not, from its sugar-coated
taste, give notice to the swallower
that the real substance of the pill
is discrimination" The whole
theory Of protection is that it has
q sort Of general financial reaction,
which eventually results in benefit
ting American labor, First, the
masses are taxed to give the Amer
lean manufacturer higher prices SO
that he can pay the American la
borer higher wages, and the laborer,
having more money, will consume
more Of the, agricultural products,
and so return the tax through
home market" to the farmers,
who, by the way, pay the whole
bill. 1t will be seen by this that
the farmer lie enabled, metaphori-
cally, to lift himself out of debt
and into affiuence by his, boot
straps; simply by increasing his
taxation TO high enough point.
The protectionists 1--WE mean the
leaders Of those who believe in the
theory, and that whether republi-
can or oemocrat) know that the
cry Of protecting American labor is
simply cry Of ''stop thief to draw
attention from the nations plum
derers. They put a tariff on wool
to protect American wool, a tariff
on iron to protect American iron, a
tariff on coal to protect American
coal, and they leave labor on the
free list. Why? To protect Amer
ican laborl The Hon. James G..
Blaine boasted that "the gates Of
Castle Garden swung ever inward"
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And this to admit foreign labor in
competition with our own. And
what is the result2 A steady de-
crease Of wages. Up to within q
few years the results of immigra-
ton were unnoticable for the reason
that the immense area of public
land furnished homes and employ
ment for all. The overflow of pop
nlation from the East swept over
the Alleghanies across Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois and the Mississippi
valley, and the last wave of the
] tide broke in Nebraska and the
Dakotas. There is no more land.
There is no more room for the over
flow. The immigrant now comes
into direct competition with the
American laborer, or the laborer
already here. They both want the
same job, and the immigrant gets
it because he will work cheaper.
The next year brings another batch,
who in turn compete for the job,
and get it because they work still
cheaper This result will go on
until wages in this country will
reach the level of those in Europe,
and the influx will cease, because
it will be no longer profitable to
come. 1t is inevitable under our
present immigration laws that
American labor must come to the
level Of European labor, because, if
no artificial barrier is raised to
keep out the tide Of foreign labor,
wages, like water, will find a level.
Yet while this is going on, our
friends the protectionists are ask
ing the farmers of the country (who
practically pay all the bills) to
submit to taxation to protect
American labor, keeping in the
back ground the fact that they are
also being taxed to protect the for
eign.laborers that come here to the
number Of a million year. ut is
condition, not theory that con-
fronts u.s." The protected iron and
coal industries employ foreign la
Dor almost entirely The coal and
iron regions are practically for
eign country. In the dispatches
of May 5th, one from Duluth says:
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