I have never been able to support the eighthour law. which denies a citizen of the United States the right to contract for his personal services. and I never will. But I do think that I am as sincere a friend of labor as any good citizen can conscientiously be. though -I may not be such a good friend as some profess to be. However. what I object to is the moral. or rather the immoral. featurethe writing in a statute book of this country a law that condemns an unskilled laborer tobe unskilled forever. which says to them as long as they will work for a cheap wage and at a vocation so laborious and so burdensome that the people who are native in that country will not. as the Senator admits. pursue it. so long as these people brought there will pursue that vocation which none others will take up. they can remain: but the moment they lift their eyes to a higher plane of labor that moment they must be banished under a deportation law. I never will consent to write that kind of a law against the labor employed in any part of this country.
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