Democrat though I be.. that as the bill stands it. does: a most serious injustice to the American. producers of longstaple cotton.. It has been repeatedly asserted that this measure. is- to. be passed for the benefit of all sections of the country.. which gives me tse undoubted right to demonstrate that as the bill stands the Northeastern States. get: the cream and that the States of the Southwest do. not even get the milk after they have skimmed it. We are told that this.bill is to: protect the factory laborers from the competition of the pauper labor of Europe. Then why should -1 be denied the right to say that it does not protect the Arizona cotton farmer from an economic conflict with the Egyptian fellaheen. who works from sunrise to sunset in the valley of the Nile for what is equivalent to 40 cents a day in American money? When the emergency tariff bill was under consideration on December 22. 1920.
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