Why. sir. in the last Congress one of the leading members on the other side of this House. the gentleman from Missouri . declared that the eluployds of this House. who had neither mileage nor passes. were no more entitled to an extra months pay to go to their homes in the heat of summer for a little recreation than the veriest scavengers on Pennsylvania avenue. And only the other day. to my utter surprise. we heard the member from South Carolina declaring that the policy of his party was for cheap labor. Carry that doctrine to its legitimate results and it means the substitution of Asiatic labor for American. Mr. Chairman. it was not the Democratic but th* Republican party that passed the antipauper immigration bill. It was not the Democratic but the Republican party that passed a bill prohibiting the importation of coolie laborers under contract. It was not the Democratic party that placed upon the statutebooks of thisnation that blessed law known as the homestead act. It was the Republican party that for the first time in the history of this country made labor free.
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