It cannot be. they know it is not. and. strange to say. the only freetrade country in Europe or in the world is England. where wages are nearly double those of any protected country on the continent. and England is richer than all of them. and her trade and riches increase in a greater ratio than any of them. Last year alone she built a million tons of ships. nearly onethird the entire tonnage of the United States. Yet the Senator is melancholly over her decline! Let him save his sorrow for things nearer home. She does 57 per cent. of our carrying trade. and foreign paupers do the rest. Another favorite argument for this plunder of the public is that it protects and fosters our "infant" manufactures. that without them a nation can never be strong and selfsustaining. &c. Mr.
Identified stereotypes
Foreigners are described as 'paupers' who are taking over the carrying trade.