If it were not an amendment. might be entitled "A bill further to injure the farmers of the Northwest in the supposed interest of the farmers of the Southeast." There is now a great agricultural liquidation which touches every corner of the earth. Last year. if I remember rightly. there were 20.000.000 acres more under wheat than there were during the last year before the war in the Argentine. in Australia. in Canada. and in the United States. and 8.000.000 perhaps of those 20.000.000 in the United States. We have sought to check the influx of Immigration for many reasons. one of them because we seek to protect the industrial worker of America who is faced with a diminution of employment. It is not consistent for us. sir. to throw open the gates to agriculturists or pseudoagriculturistswho are not to be bound to the land like medieval serfsand thereby injure the distressed farmer of America.
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