During this period of adjustment. since 1919. labor has not suffered on the whole to any serious degree. though at times It has had its -struggles. It has not felt the shock nor the burden as has the farmer. It enjoys the Adamson eighthour law passed by our Congress. it receives benefit from and is more or less protected by our immigration laws and. as others would have it. by our tariff law. Of the four factors which go to make up our commercial life we find that three of them are protected and aided by Federal laws. and in two instances at least our Government is now and has been. by its commissions and agencies. entering into and aiding in the operation thereof. and if the HowellBarkley bill passes every factor in the whole commercial life except the American farmer factor will have been by law put under the guidance and protecting wing of our Federal Government. and all of this at the expense of the Government. Congress has not seen fit to pass a single -constructive legislative measure which has for its object or would even tend to put the agricultural industry -on the same footing or plane as the other factors to -which -I have referred.
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