Speech #670239670

I came in while my colleague was replying tothe junior Senator from Idaho and I did not hear all of his speech. I do not care to discuss the matter except to reply to the statement of the Senator from Idaho when he referred to labor conditions in the South and how little farm labor was paid In that section. Unfortunately for the South. the principal product is cotton. 60 per cent of which is exported. and our farmers must compete with the pauper labor of Egypt. India. China. and other countries of the world. The tariff does not help the southern farmer. as no shortstaple cotton is imported into this country. even pauper labor of the world can not compete with us. I greatly regret that under this bill they are putting a tax on potash fertilizers. bagging. ties. and everything else the farmer and his family consumes and must usein producing his crop. The price of cotton is not fixed by the cotton producer of the South. but by the Liverpool and New York Cotton Exchanges. which are manipulated against the cotton producer.