They speak for labor! The Republican party speak for labor! The party that is responsible for the enactment of the contractlabor law. by which it became possible for the great corporations and great manufacturers in this country. who desired to take advantage of it. to. import pauper laborers from Europe into this country by 1housands and tens of thousands. bringing them into competition with the American laborer. Do gentlemen of the opposition deny that that was the fact? Do they deny that a Republican Congress was responsible for its enactment. and a Republican President made it a law by approving it. of all days. on July 4. 1864? Permit me. gentlemen. just to read a single section from that law and see how you like it at this stageof the proceedings. It is headed very nicely: "An act to encourage immigration." I read from section 2. Chapter 245. Laws 1864.
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European laborers are described as 'pauper laborers'.