As my time is limited. I shall take occasion. sir. because I know the time of the committee is precious and many men desire to be heard. to extend my remarks in the RECORD. and I propose to answer some of the arguments produced on yesterday by the gentleman from Texas . The gentleman from Texas spoke of the necessity of a foreign market and of the vast immigration that would be required to consume our surplus wheat and cotton. The cottun and wheat of the United States are decreasing quantities in the proportion they bearto our population. are exhausting to our land. and it would be better for our country. as I have said belbre. to export all our products alter they are perfected by labor than to send away the raw material at a low price to foreign countries. The inducemeutto foreign emigration presented by the high price of labor here is not in my mind a source of danger. for I have great fiith in the assimilating and digestive power of our people. When foreign labor comes under American influence it partakes of its aspirations and its love of our institutions and its general character very soon. and I have slight fears of immigration if it is properly guarded under the laws we now have. The gentleman from Texas yesterday spent a halfhour in assailing the policies of subsidizing. and described it as similar in policy to the McKinley bill. and thee proceeded to state that the McKinley bill had decreased wages in this country. I take issue with the gentleman.
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