Chairman. this proposition is a temptation held out to some people to induce them to depart from the principles they have contended for all their lives. Let me say in answer to the gentleman who said that protection had made this country prosperous and low tariff had closed up business and brought disaster. that it is strange that the same medicine has had such opposite effect on other countries. They have a high tariff in Japan. and yet the protectionists call Japan a country of pauper labor. The gentleman from Michigan the other (lay named a number of countries in the Old World which had higher tariffs than we. He did this when he was refuting the idea that the prohibitory duties and provisions of this law would provoke retaliation against us and cripple us in our efforts to find foreign markets for our products.
Identified stereotypes
Japan is called a country of pauper labor.