The Republican party carried most reluctantly in its last platform a plank that recommended such a revision of the tariff as would cover the difference in the cost of labor at home and abroad and at the same time give American industries a fair profit. It will be readily remembered in all of the previous platforms of the Republican party about thetariff the contention was that the measure of protection should always at least equal the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. The cry heretofore had been. "The wages of our laborers must be protected against the pauper labor of Europe." The false pretense about the protection of our labor by a tariff. covering the difference of the cost of production at home and abroad. had become well known to the public. and so at Chicago the men who stand for protection for protections sake adroitly added the comprehensive and significant words "together with a reasonable profit to our American industries." I merely mention this in order that the searchlight can properly be turned on this bill. The gentleman from Ohio . with most commendable frankness. said in his remarks on the bill on the 27th: I am aware that many of my Republican brethren say that there was no promise given. either expressly or implied. in the Republican platform or during the campaign for a downward revision. I do not so interpret it.
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European laborers are 'pauper labor'.