Speech #510054881

He alluded to the debate of 1883. I remember when that increase upon earthenware was asked. I remember when it was resisted. how the phantom of outraged American labor was paraded in the Senate. how we were told that pauper labor was being brought here and would be brought here to destroy the honest wages of American mechanics. I remember that the home market was paraded here in behalf of that increase. and that the potterymakers of New Jersey thronged these lobbies. holding up their emaciated hands and appealing to Congress for assistance. They said. "Unless you increase this duty thousands of poor men and women will be turned out upon the streets of Trenton and Newark without bread. and we demand. in the name of these potteryworkers. that you shall increase the duty." It was increased. and it was not two months after we made that increase until those same people. those same lobbyists. discharged these American workmen and imported Bohemians in their place.