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not be long before it will reach him and his farm will fall into 

 the hands of corporations or capitalists, and, instead of an 

 honest, intelligent and independent yeomanry, owning the 

 lands they till, there will be nothing but tenants as impover- 

 ished and miserable as the tenants of the lands of Ireland, 

 who so justly have the sympathy of our people. 



CHINESE IMMIGRATION. 



The manufacturer cries for a tariff to protect his manufac- 

 tures, but he does not want a tariff to protect labor. With 

 free trade in labor, of what avail can a tariff on the products 

 of labor be to the laborer ? What the manufacturer is striv- 

 ing for is to get his labor as cheap as possible, and to sell his 

 goods at the highest possible price. He is not willing that la- 

 bor shall share in the profits of his business. The capitalists 

 will combine and fix the price of labor, adopt joint rules for 

 its employment, and dictate who shall and who shall not be 

 employed, what organizations the laborer may and what he 

 shall not belong to ; but let labor attempt to combine and ex- 

 ercise any similar powers and the militia are ordered to be in 

 readiness to put down what capital deems a menace to its arbi- 

 trary dictation. Let laborers begin to claim their rights and 

 they are reminded that in Asia or some other distant land 

 there are those who are more poorly paid than laborers liere, 

 and that unless they quietly and submissively yield to the de- 

 mands of capital, capital will charter the ship, or the railroad 

 car, and bring laborers in abundance who will fill their places 

 and submit without daring even to complain at its cruelty and 

 oppression. Labor in our factories is being rapidly changed 

 by the determination of capital to dictate to and control labor. 

 Corporations so conducting business ought to be dissolved. 



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