Mr. President. is this: Will this tariff on tea really encourage the growth of tea in the South? I do not know whether it will or not. but I have understood that in 1901 a great number of men had bought estates in the swamp country down there and had set about establishing tea gardens. when the repeal of the law caused them to see that probably their ventures would result in failure. that they could not compete on equal terms with the pauper labor of China. Japan. and Ceylon. and consequently they quit. One curious thing about this proposition is that the United States is almost the only civilized country in the world that has not a duty on tea.
Identified stereotypes
Laborers from China, Japan, and Ceylon are described as 'pauper labor'.