Speech #760197400

I am glad they voted for the principles of the American market for the American farmer and laboring man. I repeat further that when you Members went through the tellers on the "no" vote on the Schafer amendment there was not a Republican voting against that fundamental principle. and who will deny that fact? When I think. for example. of the approximately 300.000.000 pounds of Asiatic starches brought into this country dutyfree. competing with the farmers of the Nation. starches which could have been manufactured in our Nation. manufactured instead by peon labor. mostly in Asia. earning from 121/2 cents to 25 cents a day. I consider it ridiculous that this House would not go on record as opposing that kind of competition. not only detrimental to the American farmer. but also to the American workingman.