We run these risks. and yet we get along. and so every citizen. man. woman. or child. in the whole country is liable to be utterly destroyed by the perpetration of undetected perjury. We have to take those risks under a government of law. and I do not myself understand why the man who is the real perpetrator of the serious portion of this evil should not be held to liability. He must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. and is there any great degree of danger to be apprehended of the maintenance of wrongful prosecutions by this class of immigrants? Where is the money coming from wherewith to make complaints and carry on prosecutions? It is a criminal statute. Are the law officers of the United States likely to enforce a law of this kind at the dictation of these servile immigrants who might possibly themselves be the subjects of bribery. and so might perhaps be induced. if other parties should set them in motion. to swear falsely in some instances ? But. Mr.
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Immigrants are servile and easily bribed to give false testimony.