Suppose there was no tariff upon oats. and the few thousand bushels in western Canada.which the gentleman says are cheaper by fifteen cents than ours. had been thrown upon the American market. based. as I have said. upon a yield of more than 417.000.000 bushels and already in competition in the open market with the worlds production of oats. what effect would they have produced ? About as much as a bucket of water thrown upon the bosom of the sea. Gentlemen talk about pauper labor. and we must protect the manufacturer against pauper labor. Why. my constituent raising cotton competes with the pauper labor of Egypt and India. Of course our cotton crop more than fills the home market. the surplus sent abroad competes in the open market of the world. and the price there obtained for it regulates the price of the whole crop. even that sold to our home manufacturers. notwithstanding your handsome talk about the value of a home market for our produce. Our wheatraisers compete with the pauper labor. so called. of England. Denmark. Russia. Turkey. and Chili. and they cannot even boast of a better adaptability of soil. for in England the average yield per acre is 33 bushels. in Denmark 27. and I have not the figures for the other countries before me just now. but I believe it is as great. while the average in the United States has never exceeded 13.08 bushels per acre. Let me tell you how our farmers are protected by this tariff. They raise their great staples of the farm. they send a surplus abroadusually by their merchants to whom they sell. their Inerchants being practically their agents. the effect being the same on the farmer whether he sells or sends abroadand in the open market of the world this surplus that determines the price of the whole crop competes with the product of the pauper labor of the world. and they are not permitted to purchase. in that cheap foreign market where they sell. the utensils and implements that are necessary in the cultivation and husbanding of their crop. nor the clothing and wares so much needed for the comfort of their families. but they are compelled by exorbitant duties to buy in the protected home market these implements and goods. giving an enhanced price therefor. without any corresponding benefit to themselves because forsooth you say the manufacturer is not able to compete with foreign pauper labor. And besides Ayignm 6. the farmers. when they send their products abroad. sell at a disadvantage. because commerce is carried on by means of exchange. and as they cannot take in return the things that they need they must sell at a disadvantage. So whether they buy or sell they are equally victims under the operation of the tariff laws. and then you insult their intelligence by telling them that these laws are made in their interest and protect every product of their farm.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign labor is 'pauper labor' and a threat to American farmers.