I am satisfied that no measure short of this will effect the purpose desired by our people. I confidently hope that this House will pass it at this time when so much is being said about the necessity for protecting American labor. More especially I address my friends upon the other side. who seens to conceive some hostility to Chinese legislation. and I hope. while they are sqying so much about the necessity for protecting American labor. they will not object to a bill like this. which proposes. not to protect American labor by the exclusion of the thing which the foreign laborer makes. but which says to the laborer in our own midst that we propose to protect him against the imported pauper labor of the Old World. I will reserve the remainder of my time.
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