Orations, addresses and speeches of Chauncey MDepew . ould so iiar aiui of ]) li has . has i -L it is the V that we enlarge the n borders, lU cquahze the cost of M we ex- tpi »t r •»•>; i)iavp:v in the cost of P (^ ^1, ? MI >1 1 t i I I. > ? ? ii! Um^lcy mat tUe Hours or lauor nave been id ? ^.. • ^»- of the fact that this beneficent but almost rement for the benefit of the workers haslike the same proportion in EuropeanOur labor leaders re e that which meet them is that .; - . ; •. at first to accept from a »:we are accustomed to. Ittract-labor laws ag;swamped in. this respe
Orations, addresses and speeches of Chauncey MDepew . ould so iiar aiui of ]) li has . has i -L it is the V that we enlarge the n borders, lU cquahze the cost of M we ex- tpi »t r •»•>; i)iavp:v in the cost of P (^ ^1, ? MI >1 1 t i I I. > ? ? ii! Um^lcy mat tUe Hours or lauor nave been id ? ^.. • ^»- of the fact that this beneficent but almost rement for the benefit of the workers haslike the same proportion in EuropeanOur labor leaders re e that which meet them is that .; - . ; •. at first to accept from a »:we are accustomed to. Ittract-labor laws ag;swamped in. this respersuits in lower wagesdrawn between empiu;two, or three, or four,loss of independence arpreservation compels c(;first principle of that Aour future, as has restt .., -lave thus have lost sight iiary move- ed in anything uiiiicuiiiebrp ure glad^ > than;nd the con-ch prevent us beingalways re-;ine is closelyause there ^.c job, there is a1 the doctrine of self-ibhorrent to us. Thelip upon which must restequate compensation for. THE TARIFF 301 the American standard of living and the comforts of the Ameri-can home. Immigrants, when they first come here and receiveour wages on a scale to which they have never been accustomed,are apt to live as they did in their own country, with the re-sult that they save 60 per cent, and in a few years are able toreturn to the land of their birth as capitalists. That processis going on constantly with us to the extent of hundreds ofthousands a year. It is not healthy for our body politic to havethat kind of citizenship. The telegraph, the cable, the flying steamers, have made prac-tically all the world one. No country to-day of the highly or-ganized industrial nations has any superiority over another inits machinery. The inventions of one land are quickly copiedand duplicated in another. The German chemists, who are themost expert and patient workers in the world, have producedsome 400 different articles out of coal tar. They hav
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