I consider all such persons entitled to the same protection that I am who boast of as long a line of American ancestry as any man in this country. having no foreign blood that has come into my family since the landing of the Mayflower. I say that they have the same right that I have. and when I legislate I legislate for them as I would for my own children. and I am astonished that the Senator should suggest to me that the fact that there are eightynine thousand children in Boston of foreign parentage has anything to do with the question. I will tell the Senator that in one of the Southern States of this Union 70 per cent of the entire population are either foreign born or the children of foreignborn parents. a State where they have sent outone of their executive officers to seduce men from the Republican ranks upon the theory that free trade will give to the laboring men of Wisconsin more comfort. more happiness. than the protective system under which they have been prospering and the blessings of which he admits himself they came here to enjoy. Because protection raises the price of labor in this country. it undoubtedly induces immigration. but can any man say that we have suffered by immigration? It may be possible that the time has come or may come when it will be necessary to restrict immigration. but the 9.500.000 men who have come here since 1860 have added immensely to the strength and to the wealth of this nation. One of the great causes of our prosperity is that we have been able to hbsorb and take into our community and assimilate them with ourselves and furnish them employment. We have furnished nine and a half millions of men employment in twentyseven years.
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