Mr. President. the Senators amendment has a tail to it that is very interesting. He has described the horrors of vile immigration. he has described the condition of the poor. miserable. degraded human beings who. he says. delve in the mines of the great mining State of Pennsylvania. Mr. President..there is great truth in the picture. although neither the State of Pennsylvania nor the nation is to blame for that condition of things. It is one thatwill be a meliorated as time passes. But as it exists: the Senator says that it is a horrible condition. and that it is being added to daily by the rush of immigrants into this country whom he proposes to keep out. And yet the Senator says that if this country will only adopt the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. then he is willing that any may come in. All the degraded hordes. the horrible immigrants. this damning. degraded addition to our population. may come if the tenet of the patythe one party. the two parties. the three parties for aught I know-
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Immigrants are described as 'degraded hordes' and a 'damning, degraded addition to our population'.