So far as the great body of the people. and especially the agricultural classes. are concerned. no amount of sophistry can bring them under the alleged benefits of this or any other protective measure. The farmer must sell his products in open and free competition. The price of every bushel of wheat and of every pound of cotton sold in this country is fixed by the price of the surplus in Liverpool and by the competition .of the most degraded pauper labor on earth. No tariff law can prevent the competition of the Russian peasant. the Indian ryot. and the Egyptian fellah with the American producers of the field and farm. The farmer. while thus compelled to sell in open competition with all the world. must buy the necessaries of life in a market where protection laws exclude competition from abroad and trusts and combine have strangled competition at home. He is thus ground between the upper and the nether millstone of competition and monopoly. and crucified between the foreign pauper and the American thief. [Laughter and loud applause on the Democratic side.] It is vain. Mr. Chairman. to talk to the American farmer about the great blessings of the "home market" with the fact of his growing dependence on foreign markets constantly before him.
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Foreign laborers are described as 'degraded paupers'.