This abnormal congestion of wealth in a limited area and among so small a percentage of the population. produced by the protective tariff. the highest considerations of public policy require shall not be increased but. as far may be. diminished. and a more equal. just. and healthful distribution promoted. Confessedly the most polverful manuihcturing people in the world. the plea for the development of our infant industries. under which the tariff was once justified. can no longer be made. and has been abandoned. The protection of American labor against competition with the pauper labor of Europe is now the rallying cry. As the protectionists held on to the first pretext until its absurdity grew to be so transparent that they were forced to abandon it. so they will cling to the last until driven from it by a force they can not withstand. They have enjoyed a long career of success in enriching themselves by advocating protection to American labor. while at the same time crashing the spirit of the laborer by the poverty and inadequacy of the wages they have doled out to him. compared with the cost of living they have heaped upon him by means of the high tariff.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.