Only last fall. just before the opening of this session of Congress. the Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association. copies of which were kindly sent to me for my guidance. demanded loudly that Congress should reopen the tariff question and repeal the beggarly reductions made by the law of 1883. and particularly so raise the duties as to create in this country "a cottontie industry." "a tinplate industry." and several other industries. But. Mr. Chairman. the favorite argument of the protectionists is that protection upholds the wages of the American laborer and saves him from the wretched state of the pauper laborer of England. Many tables have been compiled and published here and elsewhere showing rates of wages paid in this country and in England. Tables also are presented to show the purchasing power of the wages paid in both countries.
Identified stereotypes
English laborers are described as 'wretched' and 'pauper'.