Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...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...
...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...
...anti-beggar Society, the members of which pledge themselves to give nothing to beggars. Instead of alms the tramp finds work at a station at the entrance of each town, where by chopping wood he can obtain food and lodging. But as this only served for temporary relief, the "labor-colonies" were instituted, of which there are twenty-two in Germany. They are situated remote from the towns and hence are free from all temptations. No man is forced to enter one, but by so doing he can find work there and later a situation. General Booth advocates very much...
Professor F. G. Peabody has an article on "The German Labor Colonies" in the February Forum...