For instance. in 1932. we imported from Japan 58.000 square yards of bleachedcotton cloth. In 1933 we imported from Japan 30.000.000 square yards of this same material. an increase of more than 500 percent. When you consider that a cotton weaver in Japan is paid a daily wage of only 21 cents. it is easy to understand the wherefore. And what is true of Japan likewise applies to Germany. Italy. Czechoslovakia. and other European and Asiatic countries where low standards of living and pauper wages prevail. The factories and farms and the laboring classes of America can only be saved from this flood of cheap merchandise by an oldfashioned. William McKinley protective tariff.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about low wages and standards of living in Asian and European countries.