I have been over New England. I have been in the manufactories. and I want to say right here that I do not have so much sympathy for the New England manufacturer as I used to have. We enacted a law in this country. the alien contractlabor law. for the purpose of keeping out of the United States the pauper labor of Europe. against which the people represented by the Senators upon the other side of the Chamber have been praying to be protected for the last thirty years. and yet when we protected them against the pauper labor of Europe. and when they have been given also the additional protection afforded by the McKinley tariff law. they have dealt unjustly by the best sons and daughters of America. thrusting them out of the manufactories. and have imported into New England between 400.000 and 500.000 French Canadians to take their places. and those people are living today on wages upon which the ordinary American New England man or woman would starve. I have understood from a statistician of Springfield. Mass . that there are 100.000 French Canadians in that old Bay State.
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French Canadians are described as living on wages that Americans would starve on.