I am supporting all these measures in the hope that the working multitudes in every industry and occupation will have been reached by every aid at the command of government before this session of Congress ends. The tariff amendments proposed in connection with this bill comprise a part. as I see the situation. of a general relief program. We have enacted immigration laws because we desire to protect the producing masses of America from the cheap labor of the world. and yet we are still admitting the products of that labor without any restrictions whatever. so far as many basic industries are concerned. to beat down the economic conditions and the purchasing power of the American workers engaged in such industries. The Democratic House of Representatives has opened the way for aid to certain essential industries in the present bill by sending us a revenue measure with tariff rates on foreign articles competing with these industries which provide relief as well as revenue. It might be well to say here that almost every tariff bill in our history has combined revenue with its other objectives.
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