The profound discontent of which these figures. embracing more than half of all the people laboring in the protected industries. are conclusive evidence. could not exist except in consequence of a deeply exciting cause. and that cause can be no other than the inadequacy of the wages paid for the livelihood of the laborers. What better or more conclusive proof than that furnished by this condition of our laboring people of the utter falsity of the claim that our present high protective tariff is in the interest of American labor. Let Republican Senators who so eloquently describe the wretchedness of the pauper labor of Europe ponder well the condition ofAmerican labor as disclosed by thewellverifiedlaborstrike figures I have given. and if still doubting let them turn to the three volumes of testimony on every Senators table taken by the Senate Committee on Education and Labor in 1885. touching tie relations of labor and capital. They will find in this testimony taken by a committee presided over by a high protective Republican chairman . tales of destitution. misery. and wretchedness among American laborers rivaling in pathos any ever told of pauper labor in Europe. I can not refer at length to this testimony for want of time. but will read from the testimony of Thomas ODonnell. of Fall River. Mass.. commencing on page 451 of the third volume of testimony.
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European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.