Our increase In exports of leather and leather goods made out of free of duty hides has been 300 to 500 per cent. Our exports of leather during the same time. made of dutiable hides. has been less. Are you wllilng to place 15 per cent on hides. thereby throwing out of employment labor to the amount of $1 and capital investment of $4 and allowing pauper labor of Europe to buy his product 15 per cent cheaper than an American can buy it on account of the rebate on leather. protecting foreign labor and building up foreign industries to the detriment of American capital and American labor? This is the way the tariff worked under the Dingley bill. which caused failures to the extent of $679.000.000. against failures of $533.000.000 in 189394. or 40 per cent more than during Democratic years. threw out of employment about 40 per cent of American laborers. who are idle yet. caused over 400.000 empty freight cars. and drove out of this country six to seven hundred thousand educated laborers. to go to Canada and other countries to seek employment. that are today suffering. and compelling our business people to invest millions of capital in foreign factories. on account of those outrageous and unjust schedules in the Dingley tariff bill. Taking as a basis for our calculation hides that average 50 pounds in weight. on farm cattle.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.