The statement begins with a detail of the amount of capital which they have invested. They tell the committee the amount of their product. the number of hands they employ. and the amount they pay them. Proceeding with their harrowing story. they tell how impudent foreigners actually compete with them in the sale of their products. and often undersell them by villainy and false swearing in the valuation of their product. and by means also of the pauper labor which these foreigners employ. By statements of their own they then proceed to show the committee how much more they pay their workingmen than is paid to these European paupers by their conscienceless and Godless employers. and they close by an earnest appeal to the committee to increase their profits. not for the sake of their own pockets. God forbid. but for the sake of the poor American workingman. whose guardians and trustees they are. and for whom alone they take all this trouble.
Identified stereotypes
European employers are conscienceless and Godless.