The domestic producer of leather. having erected the tariff fence. can not meet the demand. The shoe manufacturer. paying 15 per cent duty on hides and 20 per cent on sole leather. has an additional protection for his finished product of only 5 or 10 per cent. The first statement is that because American shoe manufacturers are operating some wonderful machinery designed to lessen the cost of production some of them are willing to take their chances against the pauper labor of Europe if Congress will repeal the duty on hides. The author. inferentially at least. admits that there is pauper labor in Europe. But why can not this pauper labor operate the same machinery? And if that is done. why will our workmen not still be in competition with them? The foreign manufactturer can get the same machinery Americans use.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about European labor being 'pauper labor'.