The false clamor of a home market and "protection to American labor" can no longer be used to deceive the American farmer or to terrify the American laborer. The farmer. despairing of the home market for his corn. uses it for fuel. because it is cheaper than coal. The American wageearner has discovered that his labor is on the freelist. and as he has witnessed the downward tendency of his wages and discovered that the system of protection enhances the cost of every article he cats and every article he wears. the argument that a high tariff is a benefit to him or that it protects him from the "pauper labor of Europe" has become* * as tedious as a twicetold tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. No amount of special pleading will convince the workingmen that protection benefits them. for experience has shown that their employers. who riot on Government bounties. divide no part of their increased profits resulting from protection with those who mine the iron and the coal. run the furnaces. or turn out the manufactured goods. Protection accumulates no fund from which the wages of laborers is increased. and as long as a system which taxes the machinery they operate. the raw material they work. is enforced they will continue to be the victims rather than the beneficiaries of that system.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor' that threatens American workers.