Speech #710178224

I merely wish to call attention to one other fact before I sit down. I have heard enough arguments made on the other side of the Chamber with reference to protecting American labor by putting on embargo tariffs to fill numbers of volumes of the CONGlESSIONAL RcoRD. and yet this afternoon when it was proposed to vote on the question of decreasing the number of immigrants who will be permitted to come here to compete with American labor. the proposition to decrease the volume of immigration was defeated largely by the votes of the very Senators who have talked most about protecting American labor. The way to protect American labor is not to permit huge Industries that have grown into giant monopolies to import labor. whether it be from Panama. Costa Rica. the Philippine Islands. Mexico. or anywhere else In the world. That is exactly what the interests that have grown rich and bloated on a protective tariff do not want. They always oppose. except in their platforms. any effort to protect American labor by cutting down immigration. Let those Senators who talk and shed tears about protecting American labor by increasing tariff rates and protecting the manufacturer so that he may raise his prices prove their faith and profession by their votes on this amendment.