Last year he made an elaborate argument upon the tariff question here. and I want to read just one clause from it in regard to this subject of iron ore. The Senator from North Carolina said: I want all American labor to have a fair and even chance. I want my own poor worlingien at home protected. not only against foreign paupers but also against domestic brigandage. Almost every item of foreign raw material used by our factories is the product of foreign "pauper labor." and is admitted duty free. By the report of the Clief of the Bureau of Statistics for the three months ending September 30.1880. there is seen a statement of the imports of iron ore. which shows a total of 425.000 tons. worth $1.t92.000. brought from every quarter of the world. all dug by pauper labor. and much of it even by convict labor as I nms informed. notably it3.000 tons from the French possessions in Africa. This in preference to the ore dug by free American labor in Alabama. Georgia.
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