Tennesseei North Car.olina. and. other States. It comes in as ballast in foreign bottoms. to the detriment of American shipowners. In fact Joe SmithsBook of Mormon imports absolute verity by the side of this cry of the protected capitalists of the North for the protection of American against pauper labor. The foreign pauper is in fact the special favorite of the manufacturers. who discriminate in his behalf whenever they can possibly make anything by it. In the first place. they invite him here and give him a homestead on the public domain if he will settle upon it. while they deny this to eleven millions of their own countrymen who cannot take the ironclad oath. citizens of the States through whose instrumentality chiefly that domain was acquired. In the next place. we see by the reports of the consuls that there is a considerable and constantly increasing trade with nearly all the countries of the world in American manufactures. the meaning of which is that they are selling their goods to "foreign paupers" in competition with British manufactures at about onehalf the price they sell the same goods to their own countrymen at home. American labor is taxed that foreign paupers may have our goods cheap. The most distant and the most savage peoples enjoy this privilege over uIs. The cannibal who dines on Sydney Smiths missionary. knocks him in the head with a hatchet for which he paid nothing but the cost ofproduction. cuts him up with a free jackknife. forwhichour own people would have paid635 per cent.. and saltshim (if he uses thecondiuments) with the saltfor the production of which we havepaid 56 per cent.
Identified stereotypes
Foreigners are described as 'paupers' who are favored over American workers.