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...Extra labor at boat house...
...boat club is in a position to build boats at an expense of about $30.00 apiece, not including the cost of labor, which is included in the janitor's wages...
...about as follows: Immigration is innate in man, and no country has a right to shut its ports to those honestly wishing new homes. Here we have vast extent of lands ready to receive all who care to come. Our resources are practically unlimited and we must have labor to increase and develop them. Now the class of immigrants coming to this country represent a set of honest, industrious men. A great majority being skilled laborers. They are valuable as bringing material as well as economic wealth to this country. They easily amalgamate and grow in sympathy with our laws...
...part of them now coming from Southern Europe. The increase of population is certainly gratifying to our vanity or national pride but numbers do not constitute strength and our welfare would be much greater if we aimed rather at quality than quantity. Moreover the country is over-crowded with laborers, many of whom would be glad to work but who do not find any demand for their labor. Thus by poverty they are brought to degradation. They refuse to go West, but remain couped up in cities and the so-called "sweating system" is a result. Protection claims to protect...
...They do not injure the American laborer. 1. Do not permanently compete with native laborers. (a) Form non-competing groups: Cairne's Political Economy, pp. 57-59, 66-67. (b). Aid division of labor; (c). Have not lowered rate of wages in general: Westminister Review p. 482 et seq. (2). Supply of labor is not excessive: Cong...