In a greater sense I am intensely concerned as to the welfare of all our people. It has been my privilege to vote for a tariff on every importation that was believed by my colleagues to be detrimental to American industry and directly threatening to deny the American laborer his wage. At the last session of Congress I voted to further restrict immigration. not because of racial hatred. not because of differences in creed. not because of class distinction. but because this great country of ours already has millions of ablebodied men who can not find employment and because I am convinced that the American labor market is entitled to the same protection that our tariff laws give to that which American labor produces. This bill passed the House but was killed in the Senate. I can not reconcile myself to the inconsistency of my colleagues who. voting to exclude the lowpaid imported laborer from our shores. are urging that the conscript labor of Soviet Russia and the coolie wages of China be encouraged and that the product of these countries shall be dumped upon our shores while our American workers remain in the. bread line of this great Nation. I can see no consistency in keeping an oversupply of labor from our shores by legislation and at the same time allowing that which it produces to come in tax free to compete with that produced by fairpaid American labor. The great anthracite basin in Pennsylvania. of which I represent a major part. normally employs 150.000 men upon whom 2.000.000 American folks depend for the necessities of life.
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