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Show "LET THEM COME." The Republican organ of this city in chronicling the fact Monday that the closing down of the tin plate industries of Wales would possibly be the means of driving those engaged in that industry in-dustry over to America, said "Let them come." This is the sentiment of the advocate of the Republican principle of protection. Let us pause one moment mo-ment and see the inconsistency of the proposition. Protectionists claim that the tariff protects American labor against foreign competition. Does it? There is no tariff on laborers. There is absolute free trade in labor the one thing the manufacturer has to buy, and the one thing the laborer has to sell. But the manufacturer says we keep out foreign work. Well, when does the foreign laborer most interfere with your job when he is thousands of miles away, working by hand or with poor machinery, producing produc-ing goods that have to be transported thousands of miles, before they come into our markets? or when he has come here as an immigrant and stands ready to work right by your side on the very machinv- you work with, to make the very goods you are making? When does he most interfere with your job? When he stays a foreigner thousands of miles off? or when he comes here and bids against you? How do'S it help the employer most to have him stay at home in Europe? or to have him here underbiddingyou. |