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Since these international millionaires have great financial personal interest in 

 certain foreign countries, it naturally follows that they have and will continue to 

 select those countries in which they themselves have financial and property 

 interest. 



The result of this kind of condition and this arrangement is that these inter- 

 national millionaires in the State Department are just as much the representa- 

 tives of such foreign countries as they are of the United States which houses them 

 and places them m seats of authority. 



There can be no "intentional patriot." The very word "patriot," derived from 

 the Greek and the Latin, means a love of one's country. It means, literally, a 

 father to the country. 



Those who try to bring about internationalism and world rule are as great 

 traitors and saboteurs of American liberty and. American rights as were those 

 saboteurs landed by a German submarine and who were justly executed. Those 

 individuals who are now trying to destroy the American National Government 

 and substitute international government should be dealt with in the same way. 



For instance if the President of the United States should nominate a citizen 

 of Brazil to be Assistant Secretary of State and to make trade agreements for 

 the common people of this coUiitry, I think the l^.iited States Senate would 

 indignantly refuse to confirm such nomination. Yet, from a practical standpoint, 

 there would be little difference in naming a citizen of Brazil and in naming an 

 American with $150,000,000 invested in Brazilian enterprises. It is a travesty 

 on truth to name a treaty "reciprocal" when such treaty amounts purely to 

 a license to international millionaires to plunder the American public. 



Take for instance the representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co. We had Mr. 

 Stettinius representing these great international bankers and their subsidiaries 

 8uch as the Chase National Bank. To turn the tariff-making or tariff-destroying 

 power over to these millionaire plunderers of the people of all nations is, in my 

 opinion, an act as unpatriotic as the act of Benedict Arnold. I can think of 

 nothing that any foreign power could do or any representative of any foreign 

 power could do in our Government that would be more detrimental than the 

 turning over to the representatives of these international bankers the power to 

 enslave the working people of this country. Under the Constitution of the 

 United States, the power and duty rest on the Members of Congress to regulate 

 our commerce with foreign countries and to lay and collect excises, etc., in con- 

 nection therewith. 



For Ccngre^ to delegate this constitutional power and duty to representatives 

 of the international bankers of the world is, in my opinion, betrayal of the people 

 they represent. 



It is true that Mr. Stettinius is no longer in the State Department, but he is 

 no doubt merely a type of the representatives of this great international interest. 



The same reasoning would apply to Mr. Rockefeller, and those who in the past 

 have and who now haimt the Department of State, representing private interest in 

 this and foreign countries, but who in no way represent the men and the women 

 who performed the labor and furnished the sweat, blood and tears to defend and 

 preserve this country from its foreign enemies. 



I repeat that I do not believe the Members of this Congress wotild even consider 

 a measure to destroy all of our protection and put this country on a free-trade 

 basis and yet, the so-called Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act is much worse 

 than this, because an act providing for free trade without any restrictions wotild 

 jjut all Americans on the same basis, while the so-called Reciprocal Trade Agree- 

 ments Act is discriminatory in every way. 



The history of the British Empire should be an object lesson as to what free 

 trade will do for a civilized country. It is true that Great Britain in recent years 

 attempted to get away from free trade by various trade and financial devices. 

 These, however, were tried in the latter days after British statesmen began to 

 realize that a free-trade nation could not endure. But even with these devices, the 

 British Empire incorporated stich great areas and populations of very low stand- 

 ards of living, very low wages and very crude production that the countries 

 within the Empire itself were sufficient to pull down and destroy the economic 

 structure of Britain itself. 



If on the other hand, this Congress would not consider putting the country 

 entirely on a free-trade basis, then the protection given to any one segment of 

 American society should, in all fairness, be extended to our entire people. 



