Mr. Speaker. it has been said by some sapient economist. "Show me the laws of a nation and I will tell you the condition of its people." How clearly this wise saying has been demonstrated during the past three years under the evil effects of the WilsonGorman freetrade act. repudiated -and condemned by the people in the election of 1894. The same demoralizing freetrade principles have heretofore permitted the indiscriminhate immigration of the degraded classes of other nations into otur fair land. The effect upon American character may be likened to the effects upon a great river of pure water which has poured into its depths the refuse and d6bris that flows from the sewers of our large cities. At first its effects are not noticed. the decayed. poisonous matter naturally sinks and is scattered along the bottom of the river unobserved. but in time the people along such streams will begin to find among the rocks and stones on the bottom and along the shores a dark.unhealthy. fungous growthcontaiuing dangerous poisons.
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Immigrants are a 'refuse' that pollutes American character.