American people and the national dignity. Such an indictment is false and unjust. and so surely as I am now speaking it will. like retribution. come back to the nation which has committed itself to it. Behind the towering walls of your prohibitive tariff bill will gather the forced emigrants from Europe. and against whom you can not pass exclusion acts. as against the Chinese. eager to underbid in the open labor market. saved from competition by neither tariff nor trust. the American laboringfreemen for whom you profess so much care and whose rate of wages you profess to be so earnest to keep at a high standard. Foreign goods you stop at the New York customhouse. but the for. eign men and women who make them. and whom you designate "the pauper labor of Europe." crowd the Government emigrant depot. eager to underbid the unemployed American or take his place when he "strikes " against reduction of wages in a country where everything. including taxed eggs and potatoes. is artificially high. While he eats his taxed cabbages. earned with taxed tools. thatsbaped taxed raw material. under the taxed tin roof of a taxed manufactory. and solaces himself with preserved vegetables out of a tin can into every atom of which you have hammered additional taxes. you drown his protestations with apostrophes to our flag and wild rhetoric about the dignity of "American labor. "and mysterious hints about French influence. German intrigues. " British gold." and the Cobden Club.
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Generalization about European emigrants eager to underbid American labor.