Is the fact overlooked that all along our northern border there would be inmense establishments. employing thousands of workmen. built up to utilize Canadian lumber. Canadian minerals. but for the useless and absurd notion that we must levy a tax upon all the people of this country. which has no other effect than to bestow exclusive advantages upon a few who have already become possessed of the wealth of Croesus? * * I But the folly of this pretense becomes apparent when you come to survey the employ( whose interest we ostensibly seek to protect. Go to the mills and find the spindles fed by children who were not born under our flag and whose parents are not naturalized. Go to many of the mines and find them worked by men who are of the very character and quality against the influence of whose labor when it is exerted elsewhere we protest with such earnestness. The fact is that our unrevised system is today. taken in connection with unrestricted immigration. more in the interest of that class of labor that is constantly talked about as the pauper labor of Europe. and which is coming to our shore. than it is of the American citizen. and by the American citizen I mean the native and naturalized citizen. If some of the gentlemen who have been before the Ways and Aleans Committee would search their payrolls they would find that in some cases not 5 per cent. are citizens of the United States. and in other cases the employ~s goby numbers and not by name. Mr.
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Immigrant labor is described as 'pauper labor of Europe'.