Speech #490059624

I defy any one but the most skillful expert or learned chemist to tell you which is the spurious and which is the genuine article. Yet. sir. we are repeatedly told that Congress can not interfere in this matter. that it has no power under the Constitution to protect either the dairyman or the public. We can enact laws to protect American labor against the pauper labor of the Old World. we can protect the cotton and woolen manufactures of New England and the sugar industryof Louisiaia but we can not protect the American farmer. Mr. Chairman. this is the logic of the distinguished gentlemen who oppose this bill.