Speech #680124832

From the figures I have just given you it will be seen that if the farmer was getting his shareand by share I mean a reasonable return upon his investment and a reasonable price for his laborhe would be getting about 43 per cent more for his products than he now receives. But he is not getting his 43 per cent because his exportable surplus comes in contact and competition with other countries that are stricken and demoralized. Now. some of our other industries are aided by our tariff and by our immigration policies. In reality this is a tariff measure. This bill seeks to give tariff protection to agriculture. If we are willing to pass a tariff law and an immigration law to protect American labor and the products of the Amevican laborers from competition with the underpaid laborers and. their products in the old countries. then we ought. in simple justice to the American farmer. to be willing to pass a bill that will apply the tariff principle to him and his products. This bill is not complicated and unworkable. as some of its opponents have suggested. On the other hand.