The idea is happily illustrated by a picture in the American Economist. in which the Government is represented by a great mastiff with the collar of protection around its neck. holding in its paws a helpless puppy labeled "American Industry." This is the idea of the function of government promulgated by the American Protective Tariff League. In Mississippi. where we have no protection and every man has to make a living for himself. there are no tramps out of a job except those who come there from manufacturing districts. and. although we feed them when they ask for bread. they will not work. No man ever heard of a Mississippi tramp standing with his hands in his pockets waiting for a paternal government to give him a job with money in it. especially when the money that is in it is obtained by robbing some other honest workingman of the fruits of his toil. and I extend a cordial invitation to all honest workingmen who have been turned out of employment by the manufacturers and whose places have been filled by the pauper labor of Europe to come down and we will give them honest jobs. without asking other people to pay their wages. But this paternalistic doctrine that it is the function of government to furnish people jobs with money in them would be bad enough if a protective tariff would do it. but I assert that as far as labor is concerned protection does not protect. Before elections the most inflammatory appeals are made to workingmen and plausible arguments are used to convince them that Government can and ought to take care of them by protection.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.