Hamilton would be aghast at the system of greed and extortion which we are now asked to further. intrench by delegating to a transient Federal official a power the tyrranical use of which caused the head of a British King to drop from the block to the basket. Under the terms of this latest tariff bill Congress Is to transfer to the Executive the supreme legislative. function of laying taxes on the American people. largely within the range of his whim. his prejudice. and his favor. For a long period of time simple people were taught to believe that the "foreigner paid the tax." We were schooled for 20 years in that thought. and. when that nursery tale was. for very shame. discarded. the- American people were taught that we must protect the laboring classes of this country against "the pauper labor of Europe." Then we proceeded for 25 years under a system which introduced the pauper labor of Europe to this country. brought them over here by millions to contest the wage scale with American labor. All Senators have seen them. I have seen them in Virginia. whereyou would have to hire an interpreter to discharge a pay roll.
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Generalization about European laborers being 'pauper labor'.