Speech #480122126

I should insist upon heing. this amendment made. I can not. however. believe that to be he case. If there does exist in the State of Texas a practice such as is prohibited by the bill. if Texas is being populated under the contract system. under the cooly system. under precisely the same practice hich we prohibited wi th rferenehe Chinese. and which we ndertake to prohibit with reference to other races and other classes of cpeople by means of this proposed legislation. then the sooner that practice is broken up the better for Texas. and the better for the whole ountry. because it is conceded to be in its essence slavery. tendinlg in that direction. and it ought to be removed. rThe bill does not undertake to interfere with any of those State inducements. those which are held out to the world under pr national or under State law to induce immigration. It does not undertake to interfere with any of those broad and general inducements which are common alikea to t a to State legslation. and it is to that sort .of inducements as I understand the Senator. that the increase of our population and our agricultural development is mainly to be attributed.