President. soon after the Civil War. when the Republi"cansthe brand of Rlepublicans of whom I am now spevikinghad -control of both the executive and legislative brandhes .of the Government. -they deterniined to bring down the price of labor or to prevent the price of labor advancing in order that the laboring man might share a proportionate part of the profits resulting -from his toil. What did they -do?. They brought into Pennsylvania and into many other manufacturing .States of the Union hundreds of thousands of the poor people of Europe who constituted in part what -was then offensively called "pauper labor" of Europe. Why? In -order to force -wages down or to prevent wages from rising as .they -should have risen. keeping pace with the profits Which were made -by theemployersof labor.
Identified stereotypes
Describing European immigrants as 'pauper labor'