The advocates of protection claim they ought to have the home market. If but few goods are imported because the duty is placed so high as to prevent it. then you get but a small revenue. Then your principal object is not revenue. but to take from the great body of the people to give to large manufacturers. under the plausible pretense of keeping the home market for Americans. The principal plea is that you must do this to elevate American labor above the pauper labor of Europe. This. it is claimed. can not be done except with a high tariff. England is a freetrade country.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the 'pauper labor' of Europe.