Massachusetts in 1893 took a census on this subject. and the result showed that 29 per cent of the males in that State were unemployed. We all know that in every State of this Union. in every city. perhaps. there are numbers of persons unemployed. As long as that state of affairs continues how is it to be relieved. what remedy is tobe applied under the present condition of financial depression and distress throughout the country if we are to continue to admit without limit this stream of pauper labor from Europe? Every industry that we can think ofmining. manufacturing. and all the avenues of life where labor finds its employment and makes its livingis filled to overflowing now. Yetevery day. as the newspapers show us. as the reports authoritatively tell usevery day is bringing thousands of Italian.
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Unrestricted admission of pauper labor from Europe exacerbates unemployment and financial distress.