But at the same time they may know the language of some country other than their own. that they have picked up in their peregrinations. Such classes of citizens. I say. are not and can not be desirable immigrants for this or any other country. As I stated last spring. and as I repeat today. this is not a political question. but a question which has received the approbation of both political parties. The Chicago and the St. Louis conventions both declared for such legislation. Let me read. for the benefit of the members of this side of the House. what the Chicago convention said: We hold that the most efficient way of protecting American labor is to provent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in the home market. How are you to prevent it? How will you carry out that pledge in yourplatform?
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