Some of this poverty is merely miserable. some of it is vicious. some is criminal. * * * Now. among them is the greatest manufacturing town in the world. Naturally its inhabitants are engaged in an infinite variety of occupations. Now. if any one supposes that the American laborer desires to be thrown into competition with this squalid pauper labor of England he mistakes the spirit of the workingman of this country. And if any one supposes that the farmers desire that such a condition of things should exist in our great cities they miscalculate. The producers of farm products. corn. wheat. butter. cheese. cotton. rice. sugar. &c.. fully realize that the market for their products is not with the farmer. but with the mechanics and tradesmen and manufacturers in the towns and cities. that to enable these men to purchase they must find employment at remunerative wages. and that they may receive these wages they are willing to pay well for their products and keep them from resorting to the tillage of the soil to eke out a living.
Identified stereotypes
English laborers are described as 'squalid pauper labor'.