If you reduce their products to a specie basis. and put them upon the same fooing they were on before the war. the present rates of duty would be too high. It would not be necessary for scarce any branch of industry to be protected to the extent of your present tariff law. They do not ask protection against the pauper labor of Europe. but they ask protection against the creation of your own laws. He referred to the internalrevenue laws and the paper currency. All the internalrevenue laws of which the manufacturers then complained have been long since abolished.
Identified stereotypes
European labor is described as 'pauper labor'.