Speech #610038067

That is good. There is not one pound of jute produced in America. and yet because a coterie of men get together and want to form a bagging trust and wring from the southern farmers still further. our protective Government steps in and grants them the privilege. A great argument used during the discussion of this tariff has been to save the American labor from competition with the pauper labor of Europe. And here. in this instance. the poorest paid and yet the most productive labor asks the privilege of getting the benefit of this oriental pauper labor. and it is denied them. because the American bagging trust wants to put a few dollars in its pocket. In India. where jute Is produced. the pauper labor can supply the mills and manufacture a form of bagging that is doubly as good as the salted stuff that comes from the bagging trust. which will not hold a hook. and can be shipped into this country at a less price and give the American labor the benefit of the India pauper labor. You vote for the importation of free bagging. or never again stand on this floor and plead that you are legislating for the purpose of protecting American labor from the pauper labor of Europe. There can be no possible reason why 5.000.000 laborers should be taxed to support an industry such as the American bagging trust. when the bagging they produce could be produced by the pauper labor of Europe at a much less price. and the American laborer be the beneficiary of it.