And how desperate must be the situation of that policy which needs such resort to socalled arguments for its support? My friends. the distinguished Senators from Utah and Pennsylvania. wring their hands this morning in imaginative anguish over the awful consequences menacing the American workingman at the end of this war in a threat of cheap goods in abundance to our people. But has either of them said a word regarding the pauper laborer himself. who nay cross the seas in company with his pauper goods or without them? Is it not possible that we may be deluged with an army of pauper laborers whom our protected industries may thrust in tile places of American workmen. and manufacture their pauper goods here for our protected magnates at starvation wages instead of making them over there and sending them to us? If we may judge by experience. that will be the situation. It is precisely what the protected industries want. precisely what they have at all times encouraged. the importation duty free into this country of thousands upon thousands of cheap laborers from their.socalled pauper homes. through whose competition the American workman may be forced to accept reduced scale of wages as the alternative of starvation.
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Immigrants are described as 'pauper laborers' who will depress wages and take jobs from American workers.