Our laws have invited money and men and we have grown great and rich thereby. The gentleman from Illinois has noticed that men come here. and he does not want them to come. hence he is willing that ourwages shall be lowered to keep people away. Well. this is not the time to discuss immigration. but while people are coming I am glad they have not yet imbibed the gentlemans ideas and have not yet begun to clamor for lower wages. I really can not help adding that when the gentleman from Illinois starts his reformed emigration of men who come here "unawed by influence and unbribed by gain" I hope to be there. for it would be a sight hitherto unknown on earth of men who forsook their homes without being either pushed or pulled. To sum it up. if this protection gives us money and men. and our vast country needs both. it may- show why we have so wonderfully prospered. If it does.
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