Speech #470030225

I here invoke the application of the protective principle for the benefit of American labor on the Pacific coast. and for the ultimate benefit of American labor in all the States. You protect American industry here in these States by high tariffs upon the importation of foreign manufactures. This you do to protect the American laborer from competition with what you call the cheap pauper labor of other lands. In California our white laborers are forced into competition with a cheaper labor than the "pauper labor of Europe." and that. too. with the worse than "pauper" laborer himself on the ground. You tax the product of European cheap labor for the protection of the American laborer from low wages. Im Califrimiaothe cheapest laborer of all the world is admitted free to compete with our American laborers directly.