It was tie first time that the workingmen spoke on the subject uninfluenced by any outside pressure or coercion. but the answer lis been the failure to perfect a measure of relief. . Hence it becomes necessary to renew the appeal. and in doing so we beg leave to submit the reasons and causes that inspire us to this act. I The condition of the textilo industries. especially the woolen trade. has been growing worse. the working time in the mills is being shortened. and the wages tire being pared down just in proportion as the strain upon tile physical exertions of the toiler increases. and we are forced to compete with labor iii other paits of our own country that is paid no more than is the muchtalkedof "pauper labor" of Europe. and as all this has taken place under a system that is declared to be for the "protection of American labor." are we not justified in makig inquiries. with tile aid of our experience. as to whether it is so or not? If there is aity virtue in the theory that in order to protect American labor against ruiious foreign competition it is necessary to place a tax upon goods that are brought in from countries where labor is cheaper. it follows that these taxes should in all cases correspond with theamount and cost of labor required upon such goods in their successive stages of manufacture. but this obviously plain and honest rule has never been observed in any tariff law which its framers claimed to be for the protection of labor. That the reverse has been time case naturally excites the suspicion thatthe design was to crush rather than help labor.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about 'pauper labor' in Europe.