I want all American labor to have a fair and even chance. I -want my own poor workingmen at home protected. not only against orign paupers but also against domestd brigandago. Almost every item of foreign raw material used by our factories is the product of foreign "pauper labor." and is admitted duty free. By the report of the Chief of the Bureaus of Statistics for the three months ending September 30. 1880. there is seen a statement of the imports of ironore which shows a total of 425.000 tons. worth $1.192.000. brought from every quarter of the world all dug by pauper labor. and much of it even by convict labor. as i am informed. notably 113.000 tons from the Fre.ch possessions in. Africa. This in preference to the ore dug by free American labor in Alabama.
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Foreign labor is described as 'pauper labor' and a threat to American labor.