I then offered an amendment to restore to it $15.000.000 to be made available as a loan with security to farmers under which they might borrow money to buy food. Every Senator who now criticizes the present measure voted for that $15.000.000 amendment to the drought appropriation bill. I said then. and I repeat. that the people for .whom I particularly spoke. those whose sentiments I professed to know. wanted an opportunity to save both their lives and their selfrespect. that they represented the purest blood strain in America. so far as the AngloSaxon strain was concerned. that less than 11/4 per cent of them were foreign born. that the majority of them were qualified for membership either as sons or daughters of the American Revolution. They represented the oldest civilization we have. I want to say. in addition to that. that in 1927 we had 4.000 square miles more of territory under water than the entire State of Maryland.
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