Do not the provisions of this bill prevent the immigration of paupers? M1r. PERKINS. The term pauper labor is figurative. It means the men who work for a price materially less than the workingmen of this country are willing to take. or ought t D be asked to take. Now. what we should consider. Mr. Chairman. is not the distress of other nations. but to do the most we can to avert distress in this nation. There is a natural increase with 80.000.000 of population of over 500.000 every year. and unless we see to it that those children that every day are coming into the world.
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