I wish that opportunities had been given for hearings with regard to a tariff on shingles. The people of the Northwest would have accepted a sliding scale downward. stopping somewhere near the 30cent figure of the old Wilson bill. But we have had no hearings and must sit supinely by while the majority throws our markets open to the very workmen in other countries whose coining to the United States in recent years amounts almost to a great immigrant invasion. What difference does it make whether you let the Japanese. the Chinese. the Hindu. the Greek. and the Turk make his goods for us at home and ship them here free. or whether you let him and all of his relatives pour in 6.000 a day to cut the throats with those now here for jobs in the cotton mills. the woolen mills? In my opinion. a thousand Chinese a month pouring into sparsely settled British Columbia to cut timber and saw lumber to compete with the products of our sturdy men of the woods is fully as bad as the present inpouring of 6.000 immigrants per day into thickly settled New York. I hope that the United States will soon return to a tariff walla reasonable. rational. expert tariff wallhigh enough to guarantee protection. and then I hope that we will reenforce that wall with another protective wall against undesirable iamigration. With the first wall you protect the man who invests his capital. makes the goods. or grows the product. and provides the American standard of living.
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