AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

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Mr. AnpErsoN. Well, I said when here before, and I can only
repeat, without going into the reasons, that I think you will have
very great difficulty if you are able to do it at all.

The CrairMaN. But if the policy is carried out—I am not speaking
about the difficulties; I am speaking about the policies declared—and
if the board will in good faith carry out the policy, it will be found
that this is no price-fixing bill, but it is simply to make the laws
already established effective. The farmers are not responsible for
those laws any more than the rest of our citizens. We have had the
tariff and the farmers have not been getting the benefit of it; because
of their large number they are unable to organize as industry has
organized. Now, then, as we have the laws upon our statute books,
we think it the duty of Congress to come to the rescue of the farmers
and make these laws operative in their behalf and give them the
benefit of the laws, already established.

Mr. ANpERsoN. You have stated what you think the objectives of
the bill are and how you think it will operate.

The CuairMaN. They are stated in the bill here. and I simply
read from the bill.

Mr. AxnpersoN. All right; if it is stated there, that is all there is to
it. I can not change it.

The Cuairman. If we are agreed on the objectives, as there set
out, we ought to pass the bill. If I could get you to agree to that we
are agreed all along the line.

Mr. ANDERSON. I can not change what you have put in the bill;
I am only saying I do not think the bill will accomplish the objectives
you have stated in your preamble.

The CuairMAN. Then, we will have to let it rest there. That is
what the bill provides for.

Mr. AxpersoN. If that is what the bill seeks to do, I hope if it is
passed, it will do it. But I do not think it will. That is the only
difference between the chairman and myself.

Mr. KincHELOE. My opinion is that they talk too much in the
preamble. [Laughter.]

Mr. ANDERSON. I think there is too much thunder in it.

Mr. AswerL. Mr. Anderson, I do not agree at all that the primary
object of all the immigration laws is to fix prices. But the great pur-
pose of the immigration law is to protect American institutions and to
protect the future generations of Americans, and the sort of price
fixing is very incidental.

Mr. AxpersoN. I do not either.

The CuairmMaN. Do you not think that the immigration law has
something to do with wages?

Mr. AsweLL. Very incidentally, but the purpose of the immigra-
tion law is to protect American institutions and to see that in the
future we take care of the fiber and quality of the American citizens.

Mr. KincHELOE. I think the effect of the immigration law has
fons more for American labor than any other law on the statute

ooks.

The CuarrmaN. How about the Federal reserve act?

Mr. AsweLL. That is the best law ever enacted in the Woodrow
Wilson administration.

The CuairmaN. It fixes prices, does it not?

Vr. AswELL. No.