When the workshops and factories have been closed by the ruinous competition invited by free trade. the laborers turned out of employment. aid their wives and children are without homes and food. will the freetrade capitalists tell them that the compensation for all this is that some of the articles of consumption are cheaper and that what they lose in being out of employment and destitute is placed to the credit of English capitalists ? If our manufacturers are not to be sustained in their efforts to give employment to labor at remunerative wages the question arises. what is to be done with our skilled mechanics and laborers who have spent a lifetime at their trades and are unfitted to change their occupation? The freetrade answer is: "You must work for the wages paid foreign labor for similar work or seek such other cmployment as you can get." If our manufacturers. under free trade. attempt to compete with the pauper labor of Europe. will not our laborers have to accept a large reduction in their wages in order that the manufactured product shall not cost more than the same can be purchased for in the Old World? Such must be the logical result. The effect of such a policy upon the laboring class may be better understood by making a comparison of Apaerican and foreign wages in one of the leading industries.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes about European laborers as 'pauper labor'.