Speech #540146191

I want to treat it and treat all interests in this country in man fashion. and to treat it as if it deserved respect. as it does. and because I respect it I do not want any such language as this to be thrown to it. and to tell it that that is something we are doing for it when we know we are doing nothing for it. Let us investigate a specific proposition. if you please. Let us investigate something that is within our legislative power. but what is the use of asking a commission to roam over this country and investigate every question that pertains to immigration. to labor. to agricultureas if agriculture and labor were not the sameto manufacturing. and to business? Mr. President. these phrases are unmeaning. whether they were intended to be so or not I do not know. and. sir. it is trifling with these great interests. it is trifling with the country. it is trifling with its intelligence. to talk about investigating in this wide domain that covers all human activity and the whole circle of human interests. and ask the commission to advise Congress in what direction they should legislate.