When these socalled "pauper laborers" reach our shores. through our open ports. upon our invitation. do the manufacturers protect the American laborer byrefusingto employ his foreign competitor. and by this means aid in keeping up the wages in this country? On the contrary. they not only employ the foreigner if he will work cheaper. but the instances are not a few in which these very protectionists who are so painfully solicitous about the rights of workingmen actually send agents abroad to make contracts with these same "pauper laborers" of Europe at the lowest possible figure and bring them here for the purpose of breaking down the very men they are pretending to protect. So long as they are voting themselves profits out of other peoples money these protected classes deal with a lavish hand. but when it comes to paying for the labor in their establishments they axe as careful as if they were really not reaping where others have sown. The laboring man is the seller of labor and the purchaser of commodities. and if the tariff was really intended for his benefit it is clear that the natural and logical thing to do would be to protect. not what he is compelled to buy. but what he has the privilege of selling. As the law now stands. however. it leaves the only thing that the laborer has to sell unguarded in a free and open market. but from an alleged tender consideration for the same man it is very careful to see that what he has to purchase shall cost him from 5 per cent. to 100. 200. and 300 per cent. more than the articles are really worth.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about European laborers being 'paupers' and undercutting American wages.