He has brought 500 and there are 500 more on the water. There is a contract made as to the payment of their passage. and the money is paid back from their wages. If that system is to be extended. there is not a State in the Union which could not under the guise of a State agent allow its corporations. railroad and manufacturing. to introduce any amount of contract labor they chose to bring. The trouble is not in having a State appropriate money to promote immigration to the State. The trouble is in having the money furnished by the capitalists behind. and if you draw over them the thin veil of a State agency. it does not alter the thing in the least. It is contract labor. and if one State appoints an agent of that kind there is nothing to prevent employers. through that agency. bringing any amount of contract labor into the whole country. I have not the least doubt that there are plenty of States in the Union where if they could get a State agent appointed. the manufacturers and the constructors of public works and the great contractors and the railroads would be willing to put up hundreds of thousands of dollars to supply themselves with the cheapest labor the world affords. That is the danger which is to be apprehended in the application of the South Carolina arrangement. that we are to have contract labor in the name of the State. Mr. President. this is the issue which has been raised.
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