Mr. Chairman. I am not committed to a head tax as the only remedy. Let me answer this question by first explaining how these contracts are made. after expressing an opinion that the imposition of a head tax would take the profit out of the importation of contract labor. For example. suppose I am a Syrian conducting a Syrian boarding house in the city of Lowell. Perhaps some mill sends down to me for hands. I furnish them at a somewhat lower rate of wages than is expected by ordinary citizen help. I find recurrent opportunities to supply the cotton mills with Syrians.
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