They are knocking at the doors of the Senate as they have already knocked at the doors of the House. and whenever they knock they receive. and we are going ahead to revise tariff duties whether we do anything for agriculture or not. What about the farmer? We are told by the manufacturer that he can not compete in the domestic market because he can not compete with the pauper labor of Europe. I suggest to the Senate that every. man who out on the plains of the Dakotas and Minnesota raises a bushel of wheat by his toil and the sweat of his own body is competing with another marl away out yonder on the steppes of Russia or on the plains of Rumania. He is competing with the peasant and the pauper labor of Europe no less than the manufacturer who receives his bounty at the customhouse. Every man in the South who goes down the hot cotton row in the summer and produces that great staple is competing with some man yonder on the banks of the Nile in Egypt and with some laborer out yonder in India no less than the manufacturer is competing with the pauper labor of Europe. On the other hand the American farmer who must compete with the peon or peasant labor of Europe is at still further disadvantage. The peon in Europe and the peasant in India can go into a world free market and buy the articles that he must consume.
Identified stereotypes
European laborers are described as 'pauper labor' that undercuts American workers.