When I speak of that being the object of the bill I do not mean that the bill does not exclude agricultural laborers or orchardists or vinedressers. for it does. and I intend. before we get through with the bill. to offer for the consideration of the Senate an amendment which will take them out of the category in which the committee have put them. But the object of the bill is to exclude men from this countrywho can compete inmines and in the ruder styles and orders of manufacture so as to protect those men who are here. When we are excluding these people from coming here in competition with their own brothers who have been here perhaps only a month or a year. is it not wise for us to consider the question whether we can not get rid of all this difficulty and of all this trouble without resorting to penal enactments to prevent the immigration of people into this land ? Ought we not to consider whether a modification of our laws should not be made in respect of the tariff. in respect of the tax upon material brought over for manufacture? Should we not consider whether our laws which shut us out from foreign markets are not greater obstructions to our progress. greater clogs upon the laborer. than any others that we can think of. and ought they not to be removed rather than apply to the persons who import labor under these criminal conditions?
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