Thus you can see at once why theywant to manufacture inIndia. where labor can be hired for 3 cents to 10 cents a day. This trifling cost of labor is why they want the duty reduced. You may think it is impossible for the native coolies to live on this smallsum. The reason they do so is that they have no ambition but merely to live. their food consists of rice and native fruits. which grow there in abundance. The importers who have petitioned for the reduction know fully the sad condition of prices in the market. made so -by their cooly goods and the goods made by convict labor in the penitentiaries of PennSylvania and New Jersey. which wo~have been fighting against for nine years past and during which time we were obliged to submit to short time and very short wages.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the lack of ambition and simple diet of "native coolies".