No. the Senator is mistaken. and I am very glad to relievehim of his mistake. In what I stated yesterday there is no allusion to contract labor. except in response to the inquiry made of me by the Senator from Massachusetts. and that response was simply adeclination to go into a discussion of that matter. The South Carolina law has no contractlabor provision in its terms or in its practice. and what is designed to be done by the Southern States under existing law on the line of what has already been done by South Carolina. is not to introduce contract labor. but simply to give an opportunity for the introduction of the best class of immigrants from the most desirable countries of Europe. who. when they come to us. shall be free to take labor or not. as they please and where they please and on such terms as they may agree to.
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