If. in readjusting duties some of our great manufacturing interests are required to meet a little competition from abroad. it is no injustice to them. All that anybody has promised to do is to levy duties so as to cover the difference in cost here and abroad. Nobody wishes to force American labor to compete with the pauper labor of Europe. I think we are all willing to levy duties amply sufficient to accomplish this. but when you raise duties so high as to become absolutely prohibitive. you do an injustice to the wageearner. as well as to everybody else. except the manufacturer who enjoys such favoritism. you are thereby unjust to the Treasury of the people. and you raise the standard of. monopoly. It is hard to rise above party. and yet. when one does it political enemies as well as friends applaud.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are 'pauper labor'.