It was made for the purpose of inducing the laboring men in the United States to support that party at the polls. because the laboring men. when united. constitute the majority of the voters of this country. Stripped of all its gauze and everything that is inclined to hide it from observation..that is what it means and that is what it has meant. How do these gentlemen reconcile their position on the question of annexation of the Hawaiian Islands with their deep and constant solicitude for the American laborer to be protected in his wages against the pauper labor of Europe? Mr. President. we have heard it from the hustings. it has been published in the press. that the ne plus ultra of taxation was the tariff. because it protected the American laboring man against the European pauper laborer and his handiwork. and because it built up in our own country a home market for the consumption of all his products. Yet. in the light of that fact and in the light of the further fact that these gentlemen have deceived the American people on this question. they propose to put into our population. at one stroke of the pen. 15.000.000 pauper laborers. To subserve what interest. sir? Because the demands of humanity call for it?
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The speaker generalizes that European laborers are paupers.