Gear and many other outstanding Republicans. including the venerable Senator Morrill. of Vermont. the apostle of protection. said it never was intended that these high protective duties should be permanent and declared that they should be reduced. During the time these manufacturers were getting the benefit of this enormously high protective tariff they were importing their labor from Europe by contract. They were sheltered by the high protective tariff. and yet were bringing over shiploads of cheap. ignorant. and pauper laborers from Europe to work in their mills and factories. thereby displacing American workmen. That condition continued until the act of 1885 was passed prohibiting the importation of alien contract labor. But the provisions of that bill were not sufficiently stringent. and the manufacturers found means by which it might be evaded. Then the act of 1887 was passed. which under severe penalties prohibited the importation of alien contract labor. This law was enacted over the opposition of the manufacturers. who were enjoying the bounties of high tariffs but who were unwilling to pay American workmen a living wage and filled their factories with pauper labor from Europe. Now. the manufacturers of rayon down In Tennessee are running true to form. They are sheltered behind a high protective tariff.
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Generalization about European laborers being cheap, ignorant, and pauper.