If the tariff of $2 per thousand feet on lumber makes wages higher. why is it that the wages of men in the lumber woods have declined 50 per cent. in the last ten years. while the price of stumpage has advanced from 100 to 800 per cent.? If you are going to legislate to make wages higher by imposinga tax. yon should put the tax on the men. not on the goods. If you want to protect our workingmen against the pauper labor of Europe. why do not you take measures to keep that pauper labor from coming here? Free trade in labor and protection on everything the laboring man buys. and that is called protection to American labor. No industries show more poverty. more destitution. and more strikes among their workingmen than those socalled protected ones.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about European labor being 'pauper labor'.