Is such a tax necessary in order to protect the woolen Industry? And from what is it to be protected? Will your answer be the "pauper labor of Europe"? If so. I must ask -that you be more specific. Please designate the country from which this " pauper labor" comes. You can not mean Germany. because Germany has a tariff as prohibitive as our own. and according to your phiosophy pauper labor can not exist where a protective tariff obtains. The same may be said of France and Italy and. in fmt. -of every country of Europe with the exception of England. But there is another reason why you can not designate the country from which this socalled "pauper labor" comes. and that is that you dare not stand uponthe public .platform in your congressional districts and specify the pauper labor of Germany. because every son of the fatherland knows as well as you know that there is no pauper labor in Gerninny that the American workingman need fear. and to designate Italy. France. or Great Britain as the country from which pauper labor emanales would be to insult the intelligence of the German. French. Italian. or British American citizen. and would doubtless result in the loss of his vote to the Republican Party. ie "pauper labor" of Europe argument is becoming as hollow sounding and insincere as the timeworn argument. "the foreigner pays the tax." But let us take another view of this tariff proposition as it applies to the woolen industry. That being the best protected industry in America. according to the PayneAldrich bill. it would be logical to .suppose. if protection affected wages. that the wages of the woolenmill employees would be the highest in America. But :such is not the fact.
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European laborers are 'pauper laborers' who threaten the American workingman.