I thought I was correct In my recollection. I have refreshed my memory since the Senator made the statement that he is In favor of free pig iron. Now. in view of the fact that more than onethird of the pig iron produced in the United States is produced In the Western States. even as far west as Colorado. and within the last two or three years furnaces starting in Oregon and Washington and other States. and with the official figures showing the existence of very large quantities of iron ore clear out into the Islands of Puget Sound and through the mountains of the chain of States extending up and down. does it not seem to the Senator that those people should be given some consideration in determining the question of their competition with the pig iron of countries like China or Asiatic cheaplabor countries. in order that they may do just what the East diddevelop their mines? I think the Senator will find from the official figures that there is as much raw material on the Pacific coast from which pig iron is produced as there Is on the Atlantic coast. The country is new. the population Is not so great. and the time that has elapsed since the settlement of the country not being so great. those interests have not advanced as they have here.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatic countries are stereotyped as having cheap labor.