By all the rules of protection logic a large share of the several millions of dollars a year paid by the people of the United States into these three States to build up home industries ought to go to the laboring classes. and those laboring classes ought to be content and happy. But they get no part of this money. and. as a result. there is not a day in the year that some of them are not on a strike. and these facts must show that the protective logic must be at fault. The use of the words "pauper labor of Europe" by the protectionists is for the purpose of drawing a contrast between the laborer of Europe and America. In the first place. the words themselves are false. for. as used and understood in this country. paupers do not labor at all. but are supported at the public almshouse or by public charity. But the attempt by the protectionist is to keep the wretchedness prevailing among the poorer classes of the Old World constantly before the eyes of the American working classes. evidently to induce them to give their votes in favor of maintaining the protective system. and if they do not. then they will share the fate of the pauper labor of Europe. The truth is. that the protective system as framed by the Republican party is the parent of the millionaire and the tramp. both equally a curse to American society. This iniquitous tariff system make palaces for some and hovels for others.
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