Speech #480122055

I wish to say this: My object is to prevent the importation of labor coming to this country of men having been induced bya contract made abroadthat is to say. aperson desiring to procure labor from the other side of the water enters into a contract with a man on the other side to come here for the performance of that labor on this side. In other words. I propose to distinguish between that immigration born of the expectatiQn of bettering his condition in the individual mind and that which is incited by a contract or a proposition upon the part of some one on this side who seeks to avail himself of that labor in order. is he believes. to obtain that labor at a cheaper price than he could get it at the hand of the laborer already here. My remarks are addressed to the provision of section 5 which I have read. Suppose some person desiring or pretending to desire to establish a new industry in the United States goes abroad and contracts with persons to come over here to perform labor in that industry which they can notperform. perhaps in regard to an industry which does not exist. but for which the purpose of contract he assumes to exist. or that it willexist.