Then the farmer here sells his wool of the same quality for 18 cents. or he does not sell at all. Every farmer can understand that. You turn him off with his finished product. wool in the fleece. with no protection against the halfclad and halffed pauper labor of 6 or 8 cents a day. and at the same time give the manufacturer 39 per cent on his manufactured product. and you call that honest dealing. You rob the farmer. the least able to bear it. and then turn around and give the men you have been denouncing as robbers 39 per cent tariff protection against all foreign importations. Now.
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European laborers are described as 'halfclad and halffed pauper labor'.