He will hardly have time to consider these thoughts of mine. and perhaps I had better give expression to them myself a little later on. but I should like to ask him whether he does not know that it is the presence of the negro and the conditions under which the negro labors in the South that have kept the Irishman. the German. and the Scandinavian out of the South. I should like to ask him also to explain to the House in what way the civilization of New Orleans and Louisiana. built up by the French. is inferior to the civilization of other white people. r should like to ask him further to explain how it is that the countries of Argentina and Chile. occupied by Spanishspeaking people. with very few negroes or Indians. and lately receiving an immense immigration from Italy. are advancing as rapidly as the United States ever did in its history. so much so that Buenos Ayres. at the Paris Exposition. received a higher award for its educational work than did the city of Boston. the best educational center in the United States. I think the gentleman is entirely wrong in his premises. and I hope to be able to convince this House at a little later stage that the Italian labor and the labor of southern Europe. instead of being a detriment. will be a benefit in every section of.the country wherever it comes. Wherever they immigrate they buy property and improve it. and in my judgment they would prove to be buyers of property and improvers of waste land and would tend to develop waste territory and would prove to be buildersup rather than tearersdown of the civilization of the South. And later. if the committee does report a bill. I would like to submit some pertinent questions to the gentleman from Alabama.
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