We promote free trade in men. and it is the only free trade I am prepared to promote. Will the gentleman object to importing skilled laborers from the manufacturing nations of the world and investing them with the right to earn American wages and enjoy the rights. privileges. and immunities of American citizens? I am ready to defend this policy today. though I stand on the record as hostile and with invincible purpose against bringing in contract laborers. from whatever country they may come. as any man who has been on this floor during my long service. I see here my friend from Ohio . who can tell you that four years ago. when I ascended a platform in his district to address a meeting made up of laborin2 people. I was recognized as the champion of skilled labor and the opponent of contract labor by boisterous and longcontinued cheers for "the laborers friend." though the men who constituted the assemblage had never seen me before. [Here the hammer fell.]
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