Do not the provisions that put the sailor on a foreign vessel in an equal position with an American sailor on an American vessel when in our ports enable him to get the wages of our seamen and raise the wages of the foreign seamen coning into our ports. thereby putting us on an equal footing and enabling us to compete with the foreign shippers and prevent them from having cheap pauper labor bound down to them in such way that when they bring them here they can take them back as they came? In this way do we not prevent the foreign shipping. from having the benefit of pauper labor if they have it?
Identified stereotypes
Foreign seamen are described as cheap pauper labor.