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I can prove it. [Laughter and applause on the Republican side.1 Let me read it again. and that is where the trouble comes in. It is this language which accounts for the gentlemans irresponsibility: A few years ago we used to hear the refrain that Uncle Sam was rich enough to give us all a farm. The President of the United States says "We have not got any farm. that we are bankrupt. that we are mortgaged and about to go into bankruptcy." " Now. let us see what further he said: The President. in an interview printed in yesterdays New York Journal. laments the condition that the laborer is confronted with. and says. as a remedy that restriction be placed upon further immigration to this country. "that it is impossible to protect labor against foreigii competition." I say in the interview quoted by the gentleman no such thing appears. Now. a word about this interview. I do not believethe President of the United States has ever given an interview on this question. and when you come to carefully examine what has been written in this paper. you will discover that a lady was taken into the presence of the President and introduced to him by a prominent Senator.