It is that some Hungarians and Italians have been brought here by railway and coalmining companies and perhaps by a fewofthe rougher manufacturing companies in large numbers under contracts of hire. that they come. and they are a filthy. dirty set. they remain but a short time until they work out their contract. and then they take their money. as the Chinese used to do. and they go back home. Instead of coming right to the question that we met in the case of the Chinese and saying to the Hungarian Government and to the Italian Government. "Your lazzaroni and your paupers and your criminals are being collected and sent to this country under labor contracts. under a sort of boss or cooly system. we object and protest against it. and we are going to legislate them out of this country." the President of the United States will recommend. or if he does not some Senator will recommend bya bill he introduces. that Hungarians and Italians shall be excluded from the United States for the reason that I state. that after having tried them experimentallywe find that they are an unfit class of people to come into this land. Senators in their eagerness to gratify a supposed desire on the part of certain influential people or societies to control thelabor market of this country. instead of confining the application of their law to the evil which they mention. spread it over all foreign immigration. and old Scotland. Wales. England. Germany. and France. that have furnished us millions of our most enlightened and excellent people. are put under the ban by this legislation along with Italy and Hungary. We find in the evil which came in from Italy and from Austria a pretext for attacking all the foreign immigration to this country and putting every bit of it on the same footing with the cooly system. That is all that is complained of here. Why not bring in your bill to attack the very people you complain of?
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Italians and Hungarians are described as a "filthy, dirty set" who take their money and go back home.