Mr. Chairman. I was surprised that the amendment which we are now considering was presented by a gentleman from Kansas. I want to say to him that I believe the farmers whom he professes to represent are stockholders in smelting works in his neighborhood. otherwise I do not believe he could come here with a petition of farmers saying they are willing that the pauper labor of Mexico should be brought into competition with the labor of the United States. But what will the farmers who are not stockholders in smelting works say when they know that it is the effort of this gentleman to shut them out from the markets of Colorado? [Here the hammer fell.]
Identified stereotypes
Mexican laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.