All thatwouldbe done inthat case would be that this bill would declare such a contract null and void unless it came within the exceptions embraced in the fifth section. .Ther is no such kind of migration. We all know. the Senator knows as well as any one. that the kind of immigration. which comes to this country which adds to our wealth and strength is that immigration which comes first from the adventurers who land here and start homes. who write back to the fatherland that here they can earn a dollar or a dollar and a half a day. and perhaps that information is accompanied with a twentydollar or athirtydollar contribution. saying. "Come here and share in the blessings of this great and free country." Those are the little influences and motives which have drawn to our country the great mass of our foreign immigration. and those are healthy in their character. They come here witliout contract. without arrangement. they take their chances with the rest of the laboring men in the country. The contracts described by the bill are contracts for organized labor which comes in competition with the free men who have thus been brought over in driblets in the ordinary course of migration.
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