To go abroad for anything entering into the building. construction. and armament of these vessels is not patriotic. it is not just to our own people. it is not American. and I can never consent to do it. Whenever our people have been brought in contact with the cheap labor of Europe they have risen in their might and repelled it with just indignation. I need hardly to ask you to remember the discontent aroused among the coalworkers of Pennsylvania when a few years ago the mining corporations threatened and in some cases actnally did import contract labor to take the place of our citizens in their mines. Nor need 1. perhaps. call to your mind the #legrading influence imported Chinese labor has had upon American labor on the Pacific coast. The sections in this bill to which I objectpropose instead of bringing the cheap labor of Europe here that the Secretary of the Navy shall go to cheap labor in Europe with Americas money and buy in part these proposed ships of war. a proposition Iam sure the American people will denounce as a blow at their industries and an injustice they will be slow to forget. It is our duty to care for our own workmen without regard to what can be done by the pauper labor of Europe. The proposition here suggested to go abroad for material and armament for these war vessels is but an enteringwedge of the pernicious doctrine of free trade and will notbe tolerated by the freemen of America. If we have regard for the prosperity of our people we will never allow the Secretary of the N avy to go abroad to buy a farthings value in material. labor. -or armament for these vessels.
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Generalization about cheap labor from Europe.