Speech #550056622

Now. I wish to call the Senators attention and that of the Senate and of the country to the fact that there are not less than 30.000.000 people in this country who are engaged in agriculture. whose surplus is exported and sold in the markets of the world upon a gold basis. and there is no protection whatever to them. The cotton planter of the South competes with the riceeating East Indian and Egyptian. and the wheat grower of the West competes with the pauper labor of Russia. Argentina. and of India. and the Southern cotton planter and the Western wheat grower have to compete with those pauper laborers in the markets of London.