Production today is not a question of labor so much as it is of machinery. Between the day when our grandmothers sat at the spinning wheel and spun the flax and twisted the yarn and wove with their little hand looms the clothing for the backs of themselves and their children. when every hand had to be busy late into day and this. when a mighty factory is run by steam. and when a garment represented almost nothing but laborbetween that day and this. when a mighty factory Is run by steam. and when one employee can watch 10 or 12 machines that with numberless fingers and with the skill of magic do the work that a hundred or two hundred people formerly didbetween these two extremes there Is no comparison. There is no more comparison between the pauper laborer of the world. as a competitive factor. and our labor than there is between the uncivilized barbarian with his bow and arrow and the modern soldier with his deadly cannon and other instruments of destruction. Just as the backward races can not barehanded charge in the mouths of our guns. just as they fall as the autumn leaves before the advance of our men equipped with modern arms. so economically they must give way. They are not and can not be our competitors.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign labor is described as 'pauper labor' and a threat to American jobs.