Show WHY DO THEY COMET ME certainly not they will got smaller I 1 3 aller wage thousands of immigrants como come to the united states every year why do you yon think they come here in order to earn starvation wages to bo be deprived of their earnings by 6 tariff monopolists to bo be taxed for the benefit of the robber barons no they come hero here because experience at home under the slavery of the european wage system has taught them that only in this country of high wages and prosperity of contentment and protection is tho the laborer worthy of his hire only in this land of taxes has he lie an adequate scope for the exercise of the faculties with which nature has blessed him only here can ho he own liis his own home furnish it in comfort and educate his children to be good and patriotic citizens immigration is thus the best possible tribute to the benefits of protection a mute but eloquent index of american progress under the american system immigrants did not flock here in free trade periods they remained in their own countries because the pauper standard of wag wages which free trade entails was not a sufficiently strong inducement du to bring them here pauper wages can bo be earned just as well at home as abroad but when protection again triumphed eQ when our mills and factories again hummed with life and action when plenty again blessed tho the land then the masses of europe again knocked at oar our doors and asked us to share with them our abundance immigration wo we do not advocate restrict it if you xou please prohibit it if you can but never lose sight of the fact that immigration would not trouble us if we were poor when free trado trade begins the gates ot castle garden will swing g outward a instead of inward under that system immigration stops emigration takes its place |