And yet with all this waste of words I find in this the eleventh hour of the session that the laborer has been made a subterfuge to advance the interest of selfishness. It is necessary. in fact. that the strong arm of the law should be invoked to prevent the manufacturers. whose representatives have stood aghast at the poverty labor of Europe. from introducing that very element into the country and reducing the American laborer to its level by the very laws of demand and supply. the existence of which as a reality is denied. It seems to me in the face of what has been said and the action taken by the House in defeating the Morrison bill. in which both the affirmative and negative votes were inspired or claimed to be inspired by a desire to aid the American laborer. there can be but one side entertained by the House on the question of prohibiting the importation of foreign contract labor in the United States. The House has already unanimously committed itself to the principle involved and must pass the bill unanimously or be damned by its own inconsistency. That the evils sought to be remedied by the bill have an existence is.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about European laborers being 'poverty labor'.