The English manufactories are the growth of six hundred years. and for more than fbur hundred years they maintained a high protective system. Now. why can not the cotton. woolen. and iron industries of the United States compete with England? Simply because wages in this country are 50 per cent. higher than in England. and you attempt to reduce them to the level of the pauper labor of Europe and you would bring about a commercial revolution. This is not a question whether we may have free salt or a slight reduction in duties upon imports. It is a square issue between English free trade on the one hand and American protection on the other.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.