I think it ought to be pointed out that the principle governing this subject is that competition should determine who should have the privilege of making and selling the goods. keeping in mind. of course. that natural and normal competition which results from action of the free forces of society. In an economic sense there is no difference whatever between the character of the product of the pauper detained or supported at the public expense and of a criminal detained and supported in the same way. however great and fundamentally important the ethical difference of the persons involved. The practical effect. therefore. of saying that pauper labor sustained at public expense might have a right to import its products would be to say that the State itself might enter Into competition with the individual. .when the right of free import of its goods would merely amount to a subsidy. paid at the cost of our own welfare. for such foreign States as maintain such pauper manufacturing Institutions and succeeded in selling their wares in this country. I believe that is all I have to say with reference to this subject.
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Products of 'pauper labor' are a threat to the economic welfare of the country.