I think something should be done or. if we maintain those freight rates. if we do not reduce them to .such an extent as will afford us relief. which would be imupossible and at the same time maintain an American standard of living in the operation of these railroads. we should at least accord the American sugar producers the proper protection to protect them against the cheaper products of foreign countries coming here at much less freight cost. That leads me to this thought. I will say to the Senator from Texas. that we voted here on restriction of limigration. and it was the unanimous thought of the Senate that we should limit the number of immigrants to 3 per cent of the nationals of any country already in the United States. I voted for that. There are some Senators on this side who voted that there should be no immigration at all. or only 1 per cent. The only justification we .had for that was that we wanted to keep out of this country the cheapest labor. which was trying to find entrance into this country and compete andlower the standards of our employees. We did well to exclude them.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are described as 'the cheapest labor' who lower the standards of employees.