Speech #570065613

I have offered this amendruent which eliminates the only possible objection that can be to it. It may interfere with the American citizens in Canada and in Mexico and not permit the free exchange between citizens of the United States and citizens of Canada. and between citizens of Mexico and the citizens of the United States. but it reaches the element which is the most dangerous and menacing to the labor of our country. I can show you. for I have the statistics certified to by the immigration commissioner at Boston and New York. that 15.000 in one year entered those harbors and engaged employment as skilled laborers. that 75 per cent of them were men with families. I had the names of several who lived in Scotland and who every year for nearly fifteen years left their families in Scotland and came to the city of Boston and there worked in one factory as stonecutters. They got $5 a day.