Because they will work for less wages. We hear the same complaint in regard to the shipping on our Atlantic coast. Why. gentlemen. have you not read the testimony taken lately by the Ford committee. if you have. you must have noticed that the labor employed in the great industries of the country has been nearly blotted out of existence by the importation of cheap pauper labor from abroad. Take the cigar industry. for instance (it is a great industry in my city). The testimony given in regard to that industry is appalling. It is the same in reference to industry after industry. Why. sir. our committee last winter went into the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Go into mine after mine in that regions and you will see American labor denied adequate compensation by being brought into competition with cheap pauper labor from all parts of the world. In every contest of labor for proper compensation the world is drawn on for reenforcements. which are hurled against our workingmen to snatch victory from them. Our workingmen are called onto fight against such odds a losing battle.
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Generalizes that immigrants are cheap pauper labor.