As I was about to say when the gavel fell. I believe with Huxley. that "a population whose labor is insufficiently paid must become physically and morally unhealthy. and socially unstable. and though it may succeed for a while in industrial competition by reason of the cheapness of its produce. it must in the end fall through hideous misery and degradation to utter ruin. " Because I believe this. I favor a tariff upon cheap labor. and would restrict its immigration. We are now 60. 000.000 of people. and each year more than a million are added to our number. Every twenty seconds. by birth or immigration. a new claimant presents himself or herself to claim a share in our common stock of maintenance and employment. Just when we are more sharply engaged than ever with our neighbors in the struggle for existence. needing the enjoyment of the fruits of honest industry. the President and his allies over the champagne dinner coddle those consumers with fixed incomes. who toil not and spin not. in a fools paradise. It is high time for this body. sprung from the very loins of the people. to begin to care for those who do toil and spin. and to help this American people to solve for itself the problem of eternal competition of man against man and nation against nation.
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