The Senator from Maine. with his usual courage and frankness. tells us that subsidy means protection. and he could have said that protection means subsidy. The manufacturers of the United States. the mill owners of the United States are receiving today upon their manufactured goods more than the 35 per cent levied by the tariff upon the consumers of this country. and this is done -under the pretext that we must equalize the wages of the mill operatives of the United States with those of the pauper operatives of Europe. And now we see these same subsidized manufacturers. with a monopoly of the home market. and an exclusive tariff tax which practically excludes all competition from abroad. sending the same goods upon which the consumers of this country are taxed 85 per cent to the countries where pauper labor is found and selling in those markets the goods 80 to 40 per cent cheaper than they are sold to the people of their own country. But some Senator. as I happened to hear. says that this builds up our industries. Mr.
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Generalizes about European workers as 'pauper operatives'.