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Immigrants "caught up in the meshes of our cities."

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Immigrants  caught up in the meshes of our cities.
Campaign pamphlet, "The Tariff - Address by Gov. Woodrow Wilson...at National Democratic Club, N.Y., Jan. 3, 1912," printed by G.P.O., Washington: 1912. 6 x 10, 13 pp. Discussing at length familiar issues - protecting domestic production against foreign imports, immigration, and wages. "One of the peculiarities of the tariff question is that it never seems to be settled...which has come up in every generation, to vex and perplex the American Nation again and again...Why has the Republican Party habitually been associated with the policy of high tariffs?... Because the bills of the Republican Party were paid by business men who wanted a high tariff...I for my part agree to withdraw from troubling business if business will withdraw from troubling politics... How does it happen that when immigrants come to this country from agricultural regions they do not go to the farms, but are caught up in the meshes of our cities?...I'd like to know how many gentlemen voluntarily share the profits of production with their workingmen...Now, what is really the source of wages?...We talk about American laborers competing with the pauper labor of Europe...I...hope that our grandchildren could indulge in free trade, but...they can not, because they have to pay the bills of the Federal Government...." Dampstain erosion at bound side of outer wrap, lesser waterstaining at inside gutter, old vertical soft fold, else good plus. WorldCat locates only seven copies.