Chairman. there is very much more underlying this question upon which we today are making decisions than a mere matter of trade. If we enact this measure. this Congress will have abdicated its power to protect the American people against a surrender of our American standards of living and working. We will have surrendered to that philosophy of internationalism which I have just outlined. We will have surrendered the peace and the prosperity and the very livelihood of millions of our citizens to the jeopardy of competition with the peasantry of Europe and the coolie labor of the Far East. If we are not doing that. then this act does not mean a single thing. Mr.