Chairman. this is not the only disappointment that awaits those who urge the new venture. Those gentlemen have ever been advocates of a high protective tariff. They have always proclaimed the necessity of protecting by high import duties the products of the American laborer against those of the pauper laborer of Europe. They perceive that there will be a complete abandonment of this doctrine when the Philippine Islands are annexed unless Congress has the power to impose an import duty on goods brought into this country from them. Thus they assert that when the Philippines are annexed Congress will have power to enact laws imposing customs duties there different from the rest of the United States. and can exact payment upon goods from these islands when imported into this country.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper laborers'