But I think that a moment ago he made one of the most brilliant and one of the most profound analyses of the falsity of the whole protective system that I have ever listened to in this Chamber. I never had an intellect which permitted my momentary unfriendship for a man to interfere with my appreciation of his intellectual ability. I especially listened to his analysis of the bate noire of all the economists for a long time and the "scarecrow" that the Republican Party has held out as a fright to the view of the people in the shape of an image of "pauper labor." I just want to say that I wish the Senator from Missouri had gone one step farther while he was disclosing the fact that pauper labor was powerless. and had shown the real cause of its powerlessness. because there are two weapons which it does not possess nor ever can possess. One weapon is machinery and the other is intelligence. It needs intelligence even to operate the clumsiest machinery. The fact is that pauper labor is always helpless. no matter how cheap its per diem purchase. as compared with intelligent labor. whose value is measured in its per product purchase. because pauper labor has not the machinery and has not the intelligence. Then. I would wish that lie had gone one step farther and had said two other things which are always true.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign labor is described as 'pauper labor' and a threat to American jobs.