When the war shall have ended. the demand for American goods will be as great as now. and theirs will tie the vacuum to which American nliertihandise will ihe Inevitably directed. My only fear is that these exhausted nations may be wholly unable to pay for the goods they need. nind that our foreign commerce will suffer flom the poverty which war always inflicts upon victor and vanquished alike. The fear entertained by tie Senator from Pennsylvania that the products of pauper labor In Enrope may overwhelm tie American market increases as the pauper himself diminishes or becomes itcompetent. They are. killing and maiming each other by the million. yet are they more dangerous than before. But this danger is neither so direct nor so appalling as to suggest to the :Senator the expediency of excluding him or his goods. On the contrary. the more lennsylvania can secure foreign pauper labor free of duty. the more drastic the competition with the American wage earner. the better pleased are tbose whom he represents here. I have on various occasions (luring the past two or three years been attrcited by some editorials of the Saturday Evening Post regarding this subject. and with the consent of the Senate. I here append them.
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Products of pauper labor in Europe may overwhelm the American market