The Chinese were brought to California under contract and then hired out to the Union Pacific. Central Pacific. and other railway companies. Italians have been brought here in the same way to work for the Nickel Plate. Ohio River. and other railway conipanies in the Eastern. Southern. and Middle States. If it became necessary to protect tie American workingmen of the Pacific Slope from the disastrous and debasing competition of cooly labor. the same argument now applies with equal force and pertinency to the importation of pauper labor from Southern Europe. In this connection the following statistics of immigration may be interesting. They cover four years. beginning July 1. 1879. and ending June 30. 1883.
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