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Show our wages must tome down to the English Eng-lish scale. If the workingrnen of New York were influenced by such an argument argu-ment they certainly ought not to complain com-plain when they begin to reap its bitter j fruits. The country has voted upon the que3-j tion of American wages versus foreiguf wagaa, and if the New York. Herald a correct in its conclusion it has deliberately delib-erately decided that it is better to have our markets supplied from abroad. This 13 the policy on which the country has started. Republicans Repub-licans are not ashamed that they went down fighting for American industries in-dustries and American wages. They believe they will speedily triumph uppa the very issue which has for the present pres-ent defeated them. !, ENGLISH CHEAP LABOR. Tho most curious thing in the campaign cam-paign that has ja.it come to a close is tho argument which the New York Herald Her-ald sued to induce the people to defeat Harrison'. The Herald claims to be independent, arid certainly it is not partisan par-tisan in any narrow senso. Tho Herald demanded Harrison's defeat oa the ground that the Republican Republi-can protection policy was rapidly closing clos-ing the factories of Great Britain and, as a consequence, sending a swarm of cheap English laborers to our shores. It said this waa a fatal blow at American Ameri-can skilled labor, and that it was necea-fifay necea-fifay for the people to put protection down in order to preserve the country . ugainst an influx of cheaplaborers who would .overwhelm our industries and poison our civilization. The Herald claims that the election wis a victory for those who took this view and that it means that the tide of English labor will be swept back because be-cause English mills and factories will now revive and be kept busy by the demands de-mands cf the American market. It seems monstrous that such an argument ar-gument could have had any effect whatever on tho minds of workingmen. It was a geod argument for the large class of Anglo-maniacs who read the Kw York Herald and prefer to walk on English carpets and wear English clothes. But it must be clear to workingmen work-ingmen that the revival of English industries in-dustries and the supply of our market from that source means the decline of American industries. Which ps worse, to have English laborers working la American factories at Americanprices, with a tariff that equalizes thediffer-nce thediffer-nce between our wages and thevwages of England, or to have the tariff taken flown and American workmen brought Into direct competition with the flower Wages of English workiegmen? 1 Formerly we imported English laborer labor-er and converted them into American laborers. Hereafter we must impbrt j L Ihe produet of cheap English laberJor |