All of the leading products of our ftrins are produced largely in excess of the home demand. and to find a markethave to be sent abroad. We are large exporters of cotton and wheat and corn and pork. and indeed of almost all the products of the farm. Our cotton and wheat. the leading articles of exports. have to come in competition in the markets of the world with the cotton of Egypt and India and the cereals of the Russian and BritishIndian empires Thus the American farm laborer. instead of being protected by the tariff. is forced. under the operation of these laws. to compete with the "pauper labor" of these countriescountries where 25 cents is a fhir average of the price of a days workand at the same time pay an average tariff tax of 47 per cent. on all hu consumes. fourfifths of which goes. not into the Government Treasury. but into the coffers of the "lords of the loom. the fhctory. and the furnace."I Under this beneficent system twentynine States. which are engaged in agriculture. pay tribute to nine States engaged chiefly in manufacturing. The nine have indeed prospered for the last twenty years under the highest protective tariff in the world. but the twentynine have grown poorer and poorer all the time. The following extract from the Missouri Republican. brought to the attention of the House some time ago by the distinguished gentleman from Missouri . shows the abject servitude in which the farmers of the West are held by the manufictturing barous of the nine industrial States: W1O OWiNS Trig WEST?
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Referring to 'pauper labor' in other countries as a threat to American farm laborers.