I submit through this instrumentality to themDemocrats. Republicans. and Prohibitionists alikewhether it is not a fact that thu suggestions and recommendations of the President. and which have been practically adopted by the national House of Representatives in what is known as the Mills tariff measure. now here under consideration. is not absolutely destructive of almost every industrial interest on the Pacific coast. that whatever may be its effect elsewhere. that there its effect on the wool. the lumber. the wheat. the barley. the fruits. the lead. and nearly every other industry that can be named. is absolutely paralyzing and destructive in every sense of the term. And if this is so. if in this we are not mistaken. if the adoption of the freetrade doctrines recommended by the President and incorporated in the Mills bill. only with such modifications as to give protection to certain great industries of the South. sneh as rice. sugar. etc.. will. in our judgments as a people. tend to prostrate our industries. discourage agriculture. prohibit mining. paralyze our business energies. destroy our independence. and place us on a level with European and Asiatic prices. and drive us. especially our laboring classes. in direct competition. not only with the pauper labor of European countries. but with that of Australia. China. South America. and the islands of the sea. then I assume that. no matter how we may have voted in 1884. no matter what we may have been denominated thenwhether Republicans.
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Laborers from European countries, Australia, China, and South America are described as 'pauper labor'.