The men in the old country got only $1.25 per day at the highest average. while here they got $3.25 or $3.50 a day. It occurred to him as an American citizen that it was not right for American lawmakers to go to work and say to men who had left England and come to this country. with the intention of benefiting their own condition. that they must now compete with that same system of labor which they had in England. ie ventured to say (and lie thought the facts would bear him out) that if tile proposed tariff were enacted into a law. the time was not far distant (if workmen had any work atall here) that they would have to compete with English labor. and would have to live just as workmen lived in the old country. As anr American citizen he objected to that. lIe did not believe that the workingmen of America should be compelled to compete with the pauper labor. or the comparatively pauper labor. of England or of any part of Europe. He had a somewhat extensive acquaintance with workingmen in that country. At the Dowlais works. where he had worked. there were employed altogether about 15.000 men. including the ironore miners. coalminers. the blastfurnace men. and the men who worked in the mills.
Identified stereotypes
English labor is described as 'pauper labor'.