Speech #620004357

Yes. protection to the farmer. protection to the capitalist. protection to the manufacturer. all in fair and equitable measure. but the place protection is now most needed is around the bending back of labor. The sequel to this suggestion is written against the horizon each day as the great ocean liners emerge from the mists off of Sandy Hook. and from the deck of each great racer of the seas there may be seen from 1.000 to 2.000 hopeful faces peering into the promised land. Immigrants. immigrants. millions of themi. coming to our shores to do whatdevelop America? No. not the kind who are coming now. for. according to the Presidents message. the country is overdeveloped already. What then? To help the steamship companies? Yes. that is it. the steamship companies. to make them rich that they may build more ships abroad. fly them under a foreign flag and receive a foreign subsidy. while the millions they bring turn countless thousands of AMericans into the streets. Had our great and good President suggested the enactment of some measure that would divert this stream of foreign immigration now coming to this country into Canada. instead of proposing that a stream of Canadian products shall swamp our markets and thereby drive hundreds of thousands of American farmers and their families from under the protecting folds of the American flag to find new homes under the bamer of the British Empire. the uplifted hands of not only the agriculturist. but of the American laborer. would have called down from on high a divine blessing. With the spectacle witnessed on this floor last week of the Democratic majority rejecting real election reform which might have effected the peculiar election system prevailing in the South. with a northern college professor teaching his students to respect the red flag of anarchy instead of the Stars and Stripes. and a Democratic Cabinet member belittling and demeaning the old veterans of the North who hurled back treason and saved the Nation from dissolution. it is indeed high time that Republicans took seriously the issues of the hour and declined to follow misguided leadership. So far as my constituents are concerned.