Did you ever hear of a protected industry raising wages because the tariff increased its profits? Never. On the contrary. as has been pointed out so specifically by the Senator from South Carolina . the American workman is compelled to throw his labor into an open. unprotected market and compete with the cheap European and Asiatic laborers who come here. The captains of these great protected industries have a maxim which is as follows: " We buy our labor where we can gef it the cheapest." And then these captains of industry. while selling goods at protected prices and while bringing the cheapest labor of the world into competition with the American workman. have the effrontery to say that hightariff schedules protect American labor. The system of tariff for protection taxes the consumer and does not raise his wage. and the fictitious prices of goods. under the tariffs operations. are obtained by the false pretense of protection to labor.
Identified stereotypes
European and Asiatic laborers are described as 'cheap', implying they depress wages and harm American workers.