The only ground of morality upon which the protective doctrine can stand is that our people in the United Statesthose who toil. not those who live off the toilerare of more value to the sum of human progress than any other people in the world. Protection is for the labor of this country. to guard it against the industrial fight inaugurated in the pauper lands of the wvorld. How can any man say that the hand which has toiled in mills. in factories. and at the forge must be guarded from competition with pauper labor abroad. but that the farmer of the United States must go into the world and compete with the most degraded labor there is on the face of the earth? If any man can contend it here. I hope he will be able and will have the frankness to contend ift before his agricultural constituents. Put it in that exact form of truth. for that is what it is. The farmer sells in open competition with all the pauper labor engaged in agriculture in all the world. and the agricultural labor in other lands than this receives less compensation than a toiler ofthe same land in any other industry. One of the great elements in the consideration of this bill. as enunciated by the very able Senator from Rhode Island upon its presentation. one of the essentials which he proposed. was that the law should endure for a time. I take it there will not be very much prosperity in Omaha resulting from expectation or realization of tariff. nor in any other place in the United States. long to endure through expectation or realization of a new tariff enactment. if we are to be plunged anew into the agony of a tariff fight before the people of the United States next year or two years later.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about foreign labor being 'pauper labor'.