President. the home consumption of cotton is an average of 5.000.000 bales per year. If a duty were imposed upon jute sufficient to discourage its importation into this country. it would provide a local market for from one million and a quarter to one million and a half additional bales of cotton each year. As the uses of this product of slave or pauper labor increase. the standards of living of the cotton farmers are gradually being forced down. and if the use of jute continues to increase. the domestic market of the American farmer will be destroyed and his standard of living reduced almost to a parity with that of those in India who produce jute. and who. at times. receive as their only compensation the stalks from the jute which are used as fuel. This is a matter affecting not only the farmers but the industrial worker. American capital has gone to India and has established there huge mills for processing jute.
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Labor in India is slave or pauper labor.