200 LAND AND LABOR. 



machine as well as the Anglo Saxon ; and so, also, can 

 a native of China and of South America. 



England, until recently, controlled the market of 

 India that is, did its manufacturing, etc. It is 

 trying to do the same thing for the other countries 

 named, and no doubt is meeting with equal success. 

 But India has recently learned something. By the 

 use of machinery she now produces and manufactures 

 for herself. She has driven and is driving British 

 manufactures out of her markets, and is already seek- 

 ing a foreign market for her own machine products. 

 So it is with us, who, but a generation ago, were 

 England's greatest and best customer. So it will be 

 with every other country. It is true that England 

 has still a large foreign market, which we are trying 

 to get by underselling her. England, to keep the 

 market she has, is compelled to get her work done so 

 cheap that her people are starving. We are doing 

 the same thing. The reports we daily receive of the 

 distress in that country are simply terrible. With us 

 it is but little better. Great efforts are made by our 

 political economists, among them a late Secretary of 

 State, to show that our work people are living in 

 abundance and comfort. In evidence of this claim 

 our foreign consuls and agents, with others, find that 

 whilst the European laborer is starving, in England, 

 for example, on from three to eight shillings a day, 

 the American workingman will get from sixpence to 

 two shillings more per diem, and has every reason to 

 be contented with his greatly superior condition. 

 That the wages received by the American working- 

 man, when at work, will not provide the necessaries 



