I know the attempt is made to deceive the people with the false pretense that the workingmen are not to be benefited by this legislation. The claim is that if by protective laws we give the employer a chance to pay higher wages. then he will take care of the poor laborer. Following closely upon this absurdity comes the threat that wages will be reduced if the tariff wall is lowered and the products of the pauper labor of foreign countries allowed to come in here free. One gentleman. with a degree of impudent audacity that is so extreme as to be amusing. declares that even the free gift of cargoes of foreign products would be a curse to the people who received them. That gentleman would have stood with uplifted hands in the wilderness and hurled his epithets at the Almighty because he looked with pity upon the escaping Israelites and rained manna upon them for their daily bread.
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Products of pauper labor of foreign countries