Jefferson. Lincoln. and Roosevelt was wrong and should be scrapped for some temporary form of foreign dictatorshipsocialism. communism. or fascism. The answer to all the charges made by those who would undermine the faith of the American people in their own institutions and Government is that for the last 50 years our wage earners have been the best paid. the best housed. the best fed. the best clothed. and the most contented in the world. and that at any time within the last 50 years if we had let down our immigration barriers. millions upon millions of foreigners would have flocked to the United States. and if Soviet Russia. where these American visionaries. without any experience in business or government. find everything beautiful and peaceful. should let down her barriers tomorrow. onehalf of her terrified population would try to. get out within 30 days. Fifty years ago American labor worked 12 and 14 hours a day on a pitiful wage scale and standard of living. Step by step the various State legislatures and the Congress of the United States. at the demands of the American people. have gradually brought about shorter hours for labor. provided better wages and more sanitary working conditions. and have enacted child labor laws. workmens compensation laws. and now old age pension laws.
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