The other side of this House says that we can accomplish that result by a fair system of free trade. and because we can accomplish it in that way they are opposed to our system of arriving at the same result What is our system? It is to encourage American ownership of vessels. to encourage the building of vessels in American yards to be owned by American citizens. and to that the other side is opposed. Now. to accomplish the object by introducing free tradeand I agree with gentlemen when they say that will accomplish itwe must do so upon the hypothesis that it will reduce the wages of American labor to the standard of the wages of foreign pauper labor. You acknowledge the fact yourselves when you say that your freetrade system will enable you to compete with the foreign manufacturers by bringing about a reduction of the wages of American labor. But you tell us that this will involve the labor of only a few thousand people.
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Foreign labor is described as 'pauper labor'.