While I have no doubt that thebill corrects a great evil in thenorthem and eastern portions of this country. it will be produdtive. as the Senator from Delaware has well said. of a very great hardship upon other sections of the country. We in the South and West want labor. we need men. women. and childrento labor in our fields. to takehomesteads upon our lands. and to grow up and constitute a part of the landholding citizenship of the country. as the people who go there do. We do not desire to see any of the avenues of immigration closed. We are not overstocked. If you are overstocked in the East and North. take care of yourselves. but do not create obstructions to that which is absolutely necessary to our prosperity. We can not cultivate our country. we can not gather our crops. we can not develop as we ought and as we desire to do without human labor. and a great many of our laboring people and our best citizens came from Europe. and immigration from that quarter still flows in daily with increasing volume. In Texas there are entire counties populated with Germans and Bohemians. We have whole sections of country populated with immigration of that class. and they are our very best immigrants. They produce more. they add more to the wealth of the country than any other people who come there. This bill will beaprohibitionin a great measure upon many of the methods through which those people come to our country. and it will be a prohibition upon the same methods in the Northwest.
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Germans and Bohemians are the best immigrants, producing more and adding more to the wealth of the country than any other people who come there.