Speech #750010310

So that under this policy we have one department of Government engaged in curtailing American production and the other one entering into trade agreements with other nations. trading our domestic markets for the benefit of a few international bankers and manufacturers. entering into agreements in which the best interests of this Nation and its people are entirely forgotten. As a result of this unAmerican policy our country is now being flooded with foreign agricultural and manufactured products 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 in order to protect our American standard of living. But now we import. under trade agreements and otherwise. hundreds of millions 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 unsanitary. 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. We still have millions on Federal relief and millions more 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.