Speech #550145296

A short time ago a New York capitalist. well known in this country. was reported to have said." What the United States needs most now is an importation of foreign muscle. We have got enough brains." That man no doubt was speaking by the card. So by the pending scheme of annexation a vast horde of savages. 15.000.000 of them. is to be thrown among our people in deadly competition in all departments of industry and production in the fulfillment of the desire for more muscle and less brain. that the man who has the money can get more labor and more of labors products for less expenditure. and that all the millions of our people. our native and our naturalized people. may be reduced in their standard of civilization and in their power to produce. Sir. I am not prepared to put the American father and the American son. in the field or in the shop. in deadly conflict and competition with Chinese. who live upon a bowl of rice and a rat a day. nor am I prepared to vote that the civilization and standard of living of the American mother and the American daughter XXXI420 shall be brought down to the standard of the civilization of the wife of such a man.