Speech #730020668

I was interested in the observation of the Senator regarding the loss of advantage in the restriction of immigration which comes because of our admission of foreign products. As I understood the Senator. his argument was that whatever of advantage came to us from a restriction of immigration was lost because of the importation of goods produced abroad. I wonder whether it would not be better to permit immigration. rather than to permit the products of foreign factories to come into the United States. since. if we had immigration. we would at least have the consuming power of those who came here. and at the present time we do not have it. though we have the products with which to compete.