I presume. says that England and Germany have fattened upon our system of subsidies. Did the gentleman never think how England and Germany and other foreign countries would fatten at our expense should his policy of revenue tariff. that is. free trade in common parlance. be adopted by our Government? He would hoist the gates and let the products of the pauper labor of the Old World flow freely in upon us. compete with the products of our own working men. our farmers and mechanics. reduce their income to a mere pittance. or drive them into idleness and poverty. It is in order that England and Germany and other countries shall not fatten at our expense that we have provided a way to so raise our revenues as to protect the labor and industries of our own people. But one word more as to the bankruptcy of the Treasury.
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Products of European labor are described as 'pauper labor' that will reduce the income of American workers.