If the duty be adjusted on that basis for any given date, a reduction of wages would at once be enforced abroad, and the American manufacturer would in consequence be driven to the desperate choice of surrendering the home market or reducing the pay of workmen.
Blaine warns that adjusting duties based on wage differences could lead to wage reductions abroad and impact American workers.
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