Because the contract system debases and depreciates American labor I shall oppose it. Sir. I insist that the time has arrived when a law should be passed and rigidly enforced against al l contracts for foreign pauper labor and prohibiting the introduction of the same into this country. Trusting that this bill will. in addition to accomplishing great good in other directions. lead up to this consummation. I urge its passage. For one hundred years this country has been the goal of the poor and struggling. Once they landed on our shores their condition improved. and of the millions that have swelled our population as immigrants few have returned to their homes across the sea. Today our country is the most prosperous on the globe. No other country presents such inducements to the skilled artisan. the common laborer or the tiller of the soil.
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