Another gloomy forehoding is cast upon the troubled waters of presentday politics by both the Senators. who have assumed the r~le. if not of prophecy. at least of apprehension. as to our industrial fate when this war shall have ended. when untold millions of cheap goods will be dumped at pauper prices upon the shores of America and when the people may be able to obtain the needs and comforts of life for about what they are worth. Mr. President. the pauper labor of Europe and the pauper laborerof Europe have always occupied distinct positions in the Republican mind. The pauper labor of Europe is that dreaded specter which Republicans always see. and to which. I am sorry to say. they appeal with frequent success when arguing that protection is designed solely for the benefit of the American workingman. Pauper labor is their menace to American prosperity. and has been ever since there was an America to be prosperous. And now when pauper labor. killed off by millions. mutilated by hundreds of thousands. their property. if a pauper may be said to have any. has been destroyed. is far more dangerous. far more potent in its productive and therefore in its competitive energy. far more of a menace to American labor than it ever was before. Alive he wasa formidable menace. dead he has become a more potent one. mutilated we stand aghast at the awful consequences that will inevitably follow when the surviving remnants of the contending armies return on crutches to their factories to work there and renew the nmanufacture of paupermade goods for the American market. Mr.
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The pauper labor of Europe is a dreaded specter that Republicans always see, a menace to American prosperity.