If the things we can not produce or make in this country are to be admitted free for all our people. upon what articles or manufactured products of foreign importation do the Republican party propose to impose a duty under the McKinley tariff law? They place a tariff or tax upon all manufactured articles of foreign make that come in direct competition with similar articles that we do or can make here. We place that duty so high that good wages can be paid our laboring men while they are at work making similar articles here. This is called aprotective tariffto protect our mechanics. artisans. laborers. skilled and unskilled. from the pauper labor of the Old World. Our people are the sovereigns. we are the servants. We have a high standard of civilization. independence. and manhood.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.