Wages were as much higher with us then as they are now as compared with those paid by other people. yet the skill and intelligence of our seamen more than compensated for the difference in wages. Italways will. England today pays from 25 to 50 per cent. higher wages to her operatives of all classes than the continental nations of Europe pa.y their laborers fbr like work. yet she is underselling them all. and they are seeking to protect their pauper labor. by protective tariff laws. against her skilled workmen. She tried restriction. protection. and exclusion till starvation and discontent. amounting almost to revolution. compelled her to abandon her unprofitable restrictive policy. She removed taxation from her labor. cheapened the food. the clothing. and all the necessaries for her workmen and their families. doubled the purchasing power of their wages. shortened their hours of toil. threw open her ports to all competitors. put her people upon their manhood and their muscle. declared her policy to be ftretrade. free ships. free seas. and equal rights to all men in honest competition for the worlds commerce.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are pauper labor.