Mr. President. it is useless to attempt to deceive ourselves about the situation. The American industry. whose bulwark and support is the white American farmer. can not compete with the Asiatic labor of the Orient. and with free sugar from Hawaii. the product of Chinese and Japanese labor. free sugar from Porto Rico. concessionary sugar from Cuba. and free sugar from the Philippines. every thoughtful legislator must acknowledge that the cane and beet industry of the United States is in peril. Why add to that danger adverse legislation upon tariff lines affecting our rates- and standards? Why make harder the struggle that the beet industry is making against the invasion of the Orient?