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US HIGH tariff means that every 升 laborer pays more in higher prices than he receives in higher wages. This is the reason big employers love the tariff.<








"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors", says Europe to the United States, and we, the richest country on earth answer never a word. And yet we could cancel our foreign debts and actually make money by the deed.<



Abraham Lincoln was a Southern poor white, of illegitimate birth, poorly educated and unusually ugly, awkward, ill-dressed. He liked smutty stories and was a politician down to his toes.



Aristocrats-Jeff Davis, Seward and their ilk-despised him, and indeed he had little outwardly that compelled respect. But in that curious human way he was big in-side. He had reserves and depths and when habit and convention were torn away there was something left to Lin-coln-nothing to most of his con-temners. There was something left, so that at the crisis he was big enough to be inconsistent-cruel, merciful; peace-loving, a fighter; despising Negroes and letting them fight and vote; protecting slavery and freeing slaves. He was a man—a big, incon- sistent, brave man. We have no sympathy for the railway unions, we black men; because they admit only white men and do all in their power to lower the wages of<



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