Neither will I join in an attack on that portion of the press which has had the courage and honesty to oppose an extension of the bracero program. The bracero program should stand or fall on its own merits. and this House has in its wisdom already made the judgment that it should not be allowed to continue. The Senate has recently made a similar judgment by amending the original law so that the harm to the migrant laborer. one of the lowest of the low men on the American totem pole. caused by the program would be somewhat lessened. The action taken by the Senate has been described by an editorial in the New York Times. August 19. 1963. as giving half a loaf to the onehalf million migratory farm laborers.