The whole argument in favor -of protection is that iftheindustry is helped in its infancy and weakness it will reimburse those who contribute to its support and maintenance when it gets strong enough to be selfsustaining. The only demand I have heard in this debate for thehelp of protection was that the laborers employed in manufadturing industries should have -enough increased price for their labor from tariff duties to insure them .a comfartable support for themselves and families according to American ideas of comfort and respectability in society. If the security of the independence of the American laborer against competition with the pauper laborer of Europe is the controlling reason for protective duties. tell me when this reason is to cease? How long shall this bounty to American manufacturers continue on the plea that their operatives may be able to secure through their employers wages high enough to insure American comfort and respectability ? It is very certain that the existing conditions operating upon the relations of American and European operatives in manufacturing are likely to continue. and can never be changed so as to make the American operative no longer the scapegoat of protected manufacturers.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper laborers' who compete unfairly with American workers.