If the tax is restored on sugar alone. as it was before the McKinley law was passed. the amount of revenue on the last years consumption of sugar would be in the neighborhood of $75.000.000. Tariff reform means increasing tenfold the numberof the even nowvast army of the unemployed. It means reducing the wages of the laborers of this country to a level with those of the pauper labor of Europe. It means depriving them of wages and keeping them unemployed. With a full knowledge of the present condition of business throughout the country. and the condition of the laboring and farming population. he shows a determination to ruin home industries at all hazards. and he serves a stay of proceedings upon business. until he and Congress get through the operation.
Identified stereotypes
Laborers of Europe are described as 'pauper labor'.