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standard of labor here and abroad a difference 

 which it should be our aim to foster in so far 

 as it represents the needs of better educated, bet 

 ter paid, better fed, and better clothed workingmen 

 of a higher type than any to be found in a foreign 

 country. At all hazards, and no matter what else 

 is sought for or accomplished by changes of the 

 tariff, the American workingman must be protected 

 in his standard of wages, that is, in his standard of 

 living, and must be secured the fullest opportunity 

 of employment. Our laws should in no event af 

 ford advantage to foreign industries over American 

 industries. They should in no event do less than 

 equalize the difference in conditions at home and 

 abroad. The general tariff policy to which, with 

 out regard to changes in detail, I believe this country 

 to be irrevocably committed, is fundamentally based 

 upon ample recognition of the difference in labor 

 cost here and abroad; in other words, the recogni 

 tion of the need for full development of the intelli 

 gence, the comfort, the high standard of civilized 

 living and the inventive genius of the American 

 workingman as compared to the workingman of any 

 other country in the world. 



