Should it be adopted it would work absolute destruction to what are known as the "contractlabor laws." We might as well wipe every provision of those laws off from the statute book as to adopt this amendment. Very nearly onehalf of the entire number of aliens wto came into this country last year were either farm laborers. farmers. or laborers. That class of immigrants are here in abundance. Ifthey can do as well in seeking agricultural labor as In other I branches of employment they will seek It. Otherwise they will seek some other employment. I need not add anything to what I have said. except that this will destroy the policy of all the laws we have relating to contract labor:
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