Therefore. let us carry our goods to our markets as cheaply as we can. If. according to your theory. by subsidies we raise wages and take employment from those -who buy from us. we will. of course. have fewer markets in which to sell. When we take employment from the pauper labor of other countries. this labor will come in swarms to our own. And the very ships which are asking us to enrich them by these subsidies may have labor agents all over Southern Europe and Russia inducing thousands of the illiterate. the anarchistic. the pauper labor of those countries to come in swarms to the United States to swell the dividends of the owners of these subsidized vessels. not alone by their passage money but also for the purpose of placing them in the manufacturing industries of the United States in direct competition with American labor. While the tariffswollen manufacturing industries clamor so loudly for the protection of American labor. yet if these same industries can secure this pauper labor at a wage lower than our people can work for and live. their boasted love for the American working man. like Bob Acres courage. will ooze from their finger tips. and American labor must either come down to the reduced wage or else seek other employment. If anyone doubts this assertion. I will refer him to conlitious in the States of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. the most highly protected States in this Union. where I am reliably informed that in the cities of Providence and Pittsburg a large per cent of the labor of the manufacturing industries are foreigners. many of whom can neither read nor write nor speak the English language.
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Laborers from Southern Europe and Russia are described as illiterate, anarchistic, and pauper labor.