Speaker. I can not see it in that light. and if there was anything delicate or dhngerous to our institutions or our honor in this bill. all that I could do. every effort of mine. would be put forth to defeat it. " No man on the floor of this House has given this subject more careful study than I have done as a member of the stonecutting trade. I have seen year after year thousands of such mechanics come with the first dawn of spring from the poorly paid countries of Europe to compete with and undermine the American workman. both native and naturalized. who. with his home and family here. was sharing through the long and dreary winter. as he had done the whole year round. all the responsibilities. all the duties of a faithful American workman. Not so with those whom we aptly styled birds of passage. They came with the spring. and the first faint blast of winter found them crowding on board a foreign ship again. to take them back laden with the money which was nothing less than robbed from our American homes.
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Europeans are described as 'birds of passage' who come to America only to take money and leave.