It is aninterest which affects almost all portions of the country alike. If you are without wool you are defenseless against foreign nations in time of wvar. as has been well shown here this morning. but when you have your wool. even if you have no woolen factories. your women can Spin it on their wheels and can weave it on their looms. and the soldier can be taken care of. The competition of foreign and pauper labor applies to this article more than toany other. It is a foul shame which the Senators on the other side of the Chamber are proposing. to have the American farmer raise his wool in competition with men to whom wool as a garment and wool as a manufacture are strangers. that the sheepowners and farmers of California and Oregon and Colorado should be held to a competition with men whose only garment is a breechcloth. that they should be held to competition with men who may almost be described s the Australian was described. I think by Sydney Smith. asaman whose only food was the contents of a watermelon. the shell of which he cut in two. and put onehalf of it on his head to protect him from the sun. which was his only clothing. and sat down on the other half. which was his only pretensq of a home.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the living conditions and poverty of Australian laborers.