The bill does not propose to punish such a man. If a man comes here and enters into any of the ordinary avocations of life without regard to his contract it does not even prohibit his migration hither. The bll does not operate upontheman who migrates. but only upon the man who imports or encourages the migration of contract labor. That is the difference. If a man comes here under one of these contracts and goes out and claims the benefit of our preemption law. and thus becomes an independent citizen. I do notsee how he can be punished. but the manwho entices him. the shysters. the fellows who are sent off by corporations to gather up a gang of a hundred or a thousand men to come here and drive out an equal number of hardy. industrious miners and laborers. it is that kind whom it is proposed to punish by severe penalties. and also corporations who do it. and the owners or masters of the ships that bring them over knowingly and willfully.
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