Chairman. in answer to what my genial friend from Ohio has said. I want to read the Republican platform of 1896. For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of lowpriced labor. we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. That is a specific indorsement of the pending proposition. And in 1900 the Republican national platform contained this clause: In the further interest of American labor we favor a more effective restriction of cheap labor from foreign lands.
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