We here reiterate the fact that the greater cause for the inability of American manufacturers to competewith their foreign rivals is because of the unjustifiable tax on theraw materials and not the difference in wages. and that this tax amounts to from three to live times more than the entire wage account in the product. It is needless for gentlemen to imagine that they can forever fool the workingmen by their expressions of solicitude for wages. while yet willing and even anxious to bear the enormous burden of this unnecessary tariff on the raw materials. To the workingmen of ordinary intelligence this looks like trying to find excuses for the further reduction of wages. for so long as they can be made to believe that their wages are princely as compared with those of the workmen on the other side of the water. the more ignorant of them may be induced to submit toreductions without knowing that they are rapidly nearing thelevel of the socalled "pauper labor " of Europe. Intelligent workingmen. however. are praying deeply just now that their protectionist friends may cease their hard labors to raise the wind by tariff laws so as to take time to give their professions a practical turn by raising wages in fact. But if we may judge men by their actions we are justified in asserting that if these professional friends of labor thought that a tariff would raise wages they would drop it quickly.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.