Speech #740171271

It is selling our domestic markets to foreign horse traders. As a result of this unAmerican policy. our country is now beIng flooded with foreign agricultural and manufactured products LXXX134 as never before in its history. products produced and manufactured In foreign countries. with the lowest possible standard of living. At present we have restricted the Immigration of European races and have excluded the immigration of Asiatic races. in order to protect our American standard of living. But now we import. under trade agreements and otherwise. hundreds of mlllions of dollars worth of manufactured articles from Asiatic nations. articles produced by human slavery and human misery. We exclude the Asiatic because of his low standard of living. and at the same time we permit the articles that his labor produces. under insanitary. brutal. and inhuman conditions. to be sold in competition with articles manufactured by labor under the American standard of living. In fact. by importing these goods we invite. we import the Oriental. the lowest standard of living for Americans. Last winter we had 21.000.000 on Federal relief and about 13.000.000 out of employment. and yet we import the very things that these men and women should be producing under an American standard of livingnot under an Asiatic standard. Why prevent our own people. who are in want and misery. from producing and manufacturing these articles in order to enrich a few importers and international dealers? We submit that this is the work of madmen.