Speech #480118950

I am really if I know myself anxious. that all men should have a chance. that poor men should have a chance. and that the poor classes in all parts of the world should get up a little. step after step. and rise to the fall dignity of freedom and of individual sovereignty. that every man should be a king. and that every man should have all the rights that any other man has. The bill is aimed at slavery rather than freedom. It is designed to prevent substantially the cooly practices which have been initiated and carried on to i considerable extent between America and Europe. and which we have undertaken to prohibit not alone in the forum of general public sentiment. but in the legislation -which both parties and the majorities in both branches of Congress have. seen fit to enact. * The bill does not aim to prohibit the natural flow of immigration from any other land to the United States. It leaves all natural laws. businegs laws. social laws. industrial laws to their natural effect and operation. Butit does undertake to prohibit the efforts of corporations and of individuals. of capitalists. which have been put forth to some extent in this country to introduce into it the cheap and servile labor of foreign lands. and. when it is not necessary to do so for the good of the American people and the promotion of American industries. the skilled labor of other countries. because that labor. as we know. canbe commanded at very greatly reduced wages as compared with what we pay to the working people of ourown country.