We ave onethird of the markets of the world. and if we would only take care of them right here among ourselves it would relieve all our wants. The chairman spoke deprecatingly of the fact that the laborers of the world were coming to America to compete with our labor. and he spoke of them as" foreign labor." Well. he may rest content. The threat of free trade has turned the tide of emigration. and for months more people are leaving our shores than the number of those coming. Why. Mr. Chairman. I am willing to hold out the hand of welcome to every selfrespecting. honest workman. from whatever quarteil of the world he may come. Some of us may trace our ancestry back a few generations and we will find that our ancestors were immigrants. and yet today we sit in this House side by side with those born in foreign countries. and with whom we know no difference. for this is their country as well as ours. If we can give them the benefits of our wages as well as our own people. so much the better. It is not the nation that has the greatest amount of acquired wealth. but it is the nation that has the best daily distribution of that wealth gained each day. that is best and strongest.
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