And here let me remark that at these zinc works is reduced to spelter and sheet zinc a large proportion of the zincore output of the district of the gentleman from Missouri . and. sir. if the theory for which he so vigorously contends is put in operation. either those works will have no further use for his ore. or else the wages paid to the army of employds now occupied will be cut down to a basis admitting of competition with the like product brought forth by foreign cheap labor. Mr. Chairman. the labor. both skilled and common. in my district are appealing to this Congress to have their- industries spared to them without the humiliating concomitant of a leveling to the degraded plane of foreign pauper labor. Agriculture appeals to you to spare its home market. the basis of its prosperity. Capital invested in these vast manufacturing enterprises asks to be spared the decay and ruin of their plants that must follow any system which proposes to turn our American markets over to the products of foreign pauper labor. The army of coalminers in my district is not less clamorous for the benefits of protection upon their product. The mercantile and carrying classes are sustaining immeasurable loss and damage from the general paralysis of every line of industry and business in the country.
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Foreign labor is described as 'degraded' and 'pauper labor'.