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BENJAMIN HARRISON 19 work there is to do in this country the higher the wages that will be paid for the doing of it. ... A policy which will transfer work from our mines and our factories to foreign mines and foreign factor ies inevitably tends to a depression of wages here. These are truths that do not require profound study/ To an Indiana delegation: "I hope the time is coming, and has even now arrived, when the great sense of justice which possesses our people will teach men of all parties that party success is not to be promoted at the expense of an injustice to any of our citizens." As early as July 31, 1888, he said: "But we do not mean to be content with our own market ; we should seek to promote closer and more friendly commercial relations with the Cen tral and South American states, . . . those friendly political and commercial relations which shall promote their interests equally with ours." Addressing a company of survivors of his own regiment, he said: "It is no time now to use an apothecary s scale to weigh the rewards of the men who saved the country." To a club of railroad em ployees: "The laboring men of this land may safely trust every just reform in wiiich they are interested to public discussion and to the tests of reason; they may surely hope upon these lines, which are open to them, to accomplish, under our American institutions, all those right things they have conceived to be necessary to their highest sue-