Instead of free salt. free lumber. free matches. upon these articles which are absolutely necessar for daily use. we have on the contrary duties imposed XIV165 o upon them in the interest of certain great monopolies throughout the country. thereby violating what I conceive to be the Democratic doctrine and the Democratic standard. upon which alone I will vote for any tariff bill. In regard to the protection of labor. as I do not propose to say another word on this subject. I want to put on record and have read a letter which the Senator from Delaware procured for me in answer to certain questions as to the pauper labor of Europe and the labor of American workingmen and operatives. I had read the reports of Mr. Shaw. our consul in England. and read here on the floor by the Senator from Kentucky . and I had read the statements of dctinaeires and thcorists: but Iwanted a statement from workingmenI wanted a statement from some man of character. of credibility. who had been himscf a workinglnan. and who sympathized with all the necessities and wants of the class to which he belonged.
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Referring to European labor as 'pauper labor'.