I do not believe the farmer wants to destroy a wire factory. or that the farmer wants any of these little things which. as the Senator from Connecticut has well said. will not make themselves felt in the practical reduction of the price of any article which the farmer buys. any more than I believe the men who raise the cotton at the South care anything about free cotton ties. It is all an outcry gotten up by the opponents of the protective system. and I do not think that the real interests of the farmer are promoted by this class of exceptions to the generalprinciple of protection. any more than L think the interests of the cottongrower are protected by giving him nominally cotton ties free.. I believe the prosperity of the farmer. of the man who raises grain in Kansas and California. and the prosperity of the man who raises cotton in the South are equally to be benefited by the system of protection to be maintained as a whole upon correct principles of protection. which principles are. that by a duty we will protect everything which we can manufacture in this country by our highlypaid labor against similar articles manufactured by the pauper labor of Europe and of Asia.
Identified stereotypes
European and Asian laborers are described as "pauper labor".