Mr. Speaker. I am in accord with the there drive hard bargains with pauper labor to come here in competi- general spirit of this bill and its objects. The gentleman from Penntion with our home laborers. sylvania has on several occasions described the condiWe are strong enough today to compete with the civilized world on tion of the laboring men in the manufacturing districts of his State. land or on water. We are not in a position which requires us to tax From his description during this debate we must infer that in some ourselves or to enact revenue laws to secure the importation of people of those districts men and women are herded together almost like from other countries.
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Generalization about immigrants being 'pauper labor'.