XXX27 I find. Mr. Chairman. that in 1879 the immigration into this country was 177.000. About that time your Republican leaders began to declaim from every rostrum and stump for a higher tariff. and in the GarfieldHancock campaign you promised the laborer $2 a day and roast beef. What was the result with reference to the foreigner? The very next year there were 457.000 immigrants to America. The railway and steamship companies advertised throughout Europe the fact that we were about to increase wages because we were increasing the tariff. and it resulted in an influx of 300.000 additional laborers to take the places of men already at work. . Not only that. Mr. Chairman. but in 1881 the immigration was increased to 669.000. and in 1882 it had increased to 788.090. But that is not all. Coming down to the end of the first Cleveland Administration. immigration had dropped off to 444.000. and in 1890 it stood at 455.000.
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