Norway. or Switzerland. is to be submitted to unlimited competition with the most debased classes of the Old World? Shall this unlimited competition against the pauperized. classes of the Old World fix the standard of living. and thereby the standard of respectability of the American laborer? Shall we continue to permit alien laborers to leave their families behind. come here as mere sojourners. live and labor under conditions repulsive to all our ideas. hundreds occupying a single building. sleeping in bunks ranged on the wall much as the shelves in a store. and subsisting at nominal expenseare we to permit them to drag down the standard of living and the standard of selfrespect hitherto prevailing among American wageearners? If so. farewell to every hope and aspiration which labor has a right to indulge. As a police measure this bill improves existing laws and I favor its passage. It does not even aim to prevent the immigration of ablebodied pauper laborers. Therefore it does not meet the necessities of the situation as theyappear to the wageearners of the country. [Here the hammer fell.1
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Alien laborers live in repulsive conditions and drag down the standard of living.