In other countries it may be done with armies. In this country it may be done for months with souphouses and with the bread of charity. but in the long run the idleness will destroy the fabric of our institutions and produce the irresponsible and uncontrollable forces that may shake the structure of modern society to its foundation. I heard my friend from Illinois the other day. and who of us could express the amazement with which we heard him. deliberately advising the degradation of American labor in order to discourage immigration? Why. gentlemen. it is a great thing for a nation to be able to take care of itself. It is more than any nation in Europe has been able to do. but the glory of the Republican party is that for thirty years we have not only taken care of our own.but we have opened the doors of hospitality to the struggling people of the world. and they have come. ten millions of them. and instead of bearing down the level of our civilization they have helped us to lift it up. until today the American workingman has withiin his reach alarger share of the comforts of life than could have been secured by a days work in any nation of the world or in any age in the history of the human race.
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