Ir. President. I was about to say. when the Senator from Massachusetts interrupted me. that the claim in this case as in so many other cases of the protective manufactories or those who claim the assistance of the Government is that without some protection. without the assistance ot4he taxlaying power of the General Government. they can not compete with the cheap. pauper labor of Europe. that they can not engage in that competition at a profit and pay wages to their labor such as are dewanded in this country. If that betrue.just look at ita momentand I challenge the attention of Senators to the statement I was about to makeif that be true. and if that be the real reason for the imposition of this tax and other taxes of a like character. then it is merely this process that you go through. You allow the protected manulacturer to escape from the competition of pauper labor by transferring that coin petition to the American farmer and the great mass of American consumers. That is all there is about it. He assumes the burden of the competition with pauper labor for the benefitof the protected manufacturer. and that is all you can make out of it. In its last analysis itcomes to that. We can not compete. says the manufacturer. with this article. whatever it may be. because the labor is so cheap. being of that character that is designated in the cant phrase of the day as pauper labor. we can not compete and pay the prices of American labor. and therefore we ask the aid of the American Congress. the trustees of the legislative power of all the people. to allow us to escape from that competition and transfer the result of it and the disadvantage of it largely tothe American farmer. almost wholly in the case we are now speaking of.
Identified stereotypes
European labor is described as 'cheap, pauper labor'.