Chairman. that gentlemen on the other side need not cotton there. but the price of cot ton at home. The same is true of our be afraid that any legislation they may pass or fail to pass can prevent surplus wheat and o our surplus corn. when we can export it all. American genius and American enterprise from doing all that man can The tariff law furnishes to these no home market and it affords to do to diminish the cost of production of the necessaries of life. [Apthose engaged in their production no protection against the competiti6n plause on the Democratic side.] It is altogether absurd to claim what of the pauper labor of Europe or of India. Who. then. reaps advantage my friend here claims for protection. He claims for protection the and wealth from our present er[ormously high protectivetariff laws? vast crops of wheat and corn and cotton that the farmers make and I answer.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor' and a threat to American workers.