Now. in answer to the question of my colleague from Massachusetts I contend that if I. the boardinghouse keeper. am compelled to pay the United States Government $40 or some other large amount per head on each one of these laborers that I bring in. I shall have to keep them six weeks longer to work out the extra money. This. however. can not be done. as the boardinghouse business is too strongly competitive. The immigrants learn their rights altogether too quickly. and the boardinghouse keeper will not take the risk of the attempt to keep them for a long time. In fact. I have heard it said that there is not as much profit nowadays in importing foreigners as there used to be some years ago.
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Immigrants learn their rights too quickly, making them difficult to exploit.