My information is that farm labor in Egypt in an abundant supply can be obtained anywhere from 10 cents to 20 cents per day for ablebodied men. The committee. on this statement of fact. will have no difficulty in determining at once how serious a condition threatens the seaisland cotton industry in the United States. I have not taken the time to closely investigate. but I am under the impression that an investigation of the present tariff schedules will show that every article of cotton manufacture imported into this country is dutiable. thus benefiting the American manufacturer of cotton goods of whatever description and leaving the grower at the mercy of the pauper labor of Egypt. He sells in markets that are free and there meets with his product the competition of the world and buys in a protected market and thuspays a large tax on every article he produces. although such article may be manufactured out of his own product. The grower of wool in the West Is protected against the cheap labor engaged in the growing of wool in foreign lands by a duty on all Importations. and his sheep graze on the public lands.
Identified stereotypes
Egyptian laborers are described as 'pauper labor'.