It is to the benefit of the American spinner to have American cotton shipped abroad. because he gets the advantage of a duty he could not stand up and ask for otherwise. If no American cotton were shipped abroad there would be practically no reason for any duty on cotton cloth. because we would have a monopoly of the worlds production of cotton goods. except the small amount produced out of Egyptian cotton. Yet. with a monopoly of the raw material. with the machinery and the skilled labor to convert this stuff into the finished product. from the coarsest yarns to the finest. we are imposing a duty which would spell the difference between the pauper labor of Europe and the American labor. when American labor produces every pound of cotton. and the only competitor we have is England. whose civilization is equal to ours. and whose wage is practically equal to ours. Then why this duty? It is simply a subterfuge behind which the manufacturer can demand a price from the consumer which he could not justify otherwise.
Identified stereotypes
European labor is described as 'pauper labor'.