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Show tills way we cap. pay high wages and still redu'.a the costs so that the finished fin-ished product is priced low enough to stimulate further consumption. High wages in turn have raised the country's purchasing power; stivl as a result we have today a domestic market mar-ket of more than 113,000,000 people of KJ'eat consumption capacity. In this market lies the idustrial power of America. Here also lies the power of American agriculture "....To those who have been misled mis-led into the belief that at present foreign for-eign countries cannot sell to the United Unit-ed States, it will no doubt be a surprise sur-prise to know that during the fiscal year 1928, no less than 65 per cent of our total imports were entirely free of duty exceeded the average yearly total of all imports both dutiable duti-able and free in the period 1910 to 191-1 by more than GO per cent, will come as a revelation. "The United States is the largest customer in the world today. If we vc-re not propercus and were not able 'o buy, industry both here and in Eu--ope would suffer. It is inconceivable 'o me that American labor will ever "onsent to the abolition of protection nd allow the American standard of ''ving to be brought down to the level r Ev.rope. or 'hat the American " rmer ec Id survive the enormous o-.-iir-mc power of this country were -n''lcd and his home market destroyed. TARIFF FACTS. "Our tariff policy and our.immigra ticn policy have brought to labor thr highest real wages in its history,' said Secretary of the Treasury An , drew Mellon recently. I "We have found that, by the use of labor saving machinery and by manu I facturing in quantity, we can increase the productive capacity per capita of I labor and also eliminate waste. In |