Besides. what equity is there in compelling the farmer to pay a 47 per cent tariff. with profits of middlemen added to it. and giving him in return a probable advance in the worlds price of perhaps 1 per cent. and which 1 per cent goes to his competitor. who has not been compelled to pay the 47 per centwith middlemens profits added? "But must we not tax some industry to build up manufactures? Are not manufactures already built up? But how can our manufacturers compete with the pauper labor of France. Italy. Germany. Austria. or England? Well. how can the American farmer compete with the pauper labor of eastern Europe. North Africa. and South America? "Does the drift of all this mean that we must have free trade? No. nothecessarily.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the economic impact of European laborers.