So they were protesting and muttering among themselves. Now. whose place did that man take when he came here in violation of the contractlabor laws of the United States and when he was brought here by the manufacturing barons. who reap the reward and the benefit of this protective tariff? He drove out of his occupation the native or naturalized citizen of the United States. who was receiving reasonable wages. He sent that man out into the world a tramp. while he took his place at 30 per cent of his wages under a protectivetariff system. Are you sincere. gentlemen upon the other side of the Chamber. when you say you are in favor of protecting the American laboring man by a protective tariff? If you are. why do you not go down here to your Commissioner of Immigration and have him stop this wholesale importation of pauper laborers from pauper Europe? No effort whatever is made to do it. We are filling up our country with criminals from the ports of Europe and Asia and with undesirable classes that come in direct conflict with the American laboring man and break down his wages while the man who manufactures the articles in this country receives the reward.
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Immigrants from Europe and Asia are described as criminals and undesirable.