This fact is the best argument that can be made. and needs no elaboration. It tells the whole story. With slave labor at 20 cents per day. or Asiatic cheap labor. we need no protection. and save for the purposes of revenue our customhouses might be closed. When the South depended upon the labor of its slaves. and employed little or no free labor. it was as earnest an advocate of free trade as is England today. Now. that it munt resort to free labor. it is placed upon the same footing as northern producers. is compelled to pay a like rate of wagesfor a days work. and therefore demands protection against the foreign producer. whose product is made or grown by a cheaper labor.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatic labor is cheap and a threat to American labor.