No. sir. but State action can not reach the seat of the evil. It can prescribe certain health conditions. and can. for instance. prevent clothing or other manufactured articles coming into the State unless they are suitably tagged. But it can not reach the causes of the evil. some of which. to my mind. lie in our system of practically free immigration. I believe myself that when we have investigated this subject it will be found that we shall have a better reason than has yet been shown by any statistics given on the subject of immigration for the passage of a rigid law restraining the immigration of the hordes and countless numbers of poor. degraded laborers who come to flood our large cities. and who take work out of the hands of the men who are living there.
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Immigrants are described as a 'horde' of 'poor, degraded laborers' who 'flood our large cities' and 'take work out of the hands of the men who are living there.'