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I will not say of wealth. but of something of the means of comfortable living. A word or two as to the foreigners who come to us. When they get here they do not come. the majority of them. from what may properly be called the pauper labor of Europe. because they had enough to get here and in many cases they had seine wellknown means of getting a living. They conm here and perhaps at first are willing to be employed at a less price than the American mechanics and operatives whom they find around them. because they can live upon a lower scale. and are very glad to get a sum which seems so much larger than what they got in their old homes. but only a short time elapses before they demand. and will have. of course. as they get accustomed to their work. all that anybody gets. For a time they save money faster than any Americans. but very soon the young girls desire to dress as well as anybody in goingto church. and the boys at school must have their sleds and bats and schoolbooks. and there must be a carpet in the house. and some engraving on the wall and a good Yankee clock there also. and so on and so on. and in two or three years the home is transformed and they are living like Yankee mechanics and operatives. and spending just as much money as they. and it is they also who are keeping up this $84.000.000 of deposits. which they use to bring over more and more people of that sort.. and I am very glad of it.