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It is not until the prices of the necessaries of life become so dear that the laboring classes can not supply their wants out of their wages that the wages rise and gradually reach a justly proportioned rate to that of the products of their labor.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson describes how rising prices of necessities eventually lead to wage adjustments for laborers.

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