The American sailor is paid better wages. lives better. and requires more than the sailor of any other country. Meeting the cost of construction and the cost of operation. the American ship could enter into competition for the carrying trade of the world. On the other hand. if we would reduce the price paid to the American ship carpenter to the level of the poorly paid and pauper laborer of Europe. the American shipowner then could compete successfully with other shipping industries of the world. But do we want to reduce the standard of wages which our laborers receive to the standard of that paid in European countries? Yet we must equalize it in some way. and the only way. in my mind. to do this is by giving protection in some way to Americanbuilt and Americansailed ships.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about European laborers being poorly paid and of a lower standard.