We respetfully urge on you that whent any manufacturers finished product is granted protection there be accorded likewise to the raw material that the manufacturer uses. which is the finished product of the farmer. if produced in this country. corresponding protection. Evidence has been presented to Congress to show that a considerable volume of American capital has been sent to foreign countries. where labor is cheap. with the intent of bringing back for sale in the American market the products of such cheap labor. We regard it as economic lunacy to erect barriers against the immigration of pauper labor and at the same time to permit .the products of such labor to compete with goods produced under American standards in a free market. The country call be swamped no less by an influx of cheap agricultural products from the Orient than by the entrance of oriental labor. The latter is prohibited by law and the former should be.
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