We have avery large manufacturing population. composed at this time alnost entirely of people born and bred in South Carolina. people as good as We have. but unfortunately they are poor. I would do nothing to jeopardize the interest of that class of people. I would not have the manufacturing interests of South Carolina given the opportunity to go to Europe and make contracts with anyone they might see fit. regardless of their fitness as citizens. and bring over a horde of ignorant and debased foreigners to reduce the wages of my own people by bringing into competition with them these contract laborers from Europe. But if the State needs more white peopleand who will deny it?-if by reason of the poverty of the soil. impoverisied by a century and a half of improvident agriculture. naturally poor to begin with. it is an unpropitious field for new people to come to settle. if the condition thereof the excess of negroes who will compete in the labor market with these foreignersmakes it wellnigh impossible to attract white people there. white people from the North or white people from EurtpeI ask the Senate whether if. under existing law. that State is permitted through organized efforts to bring in a good class of white men and women to help us develop our resources and to increase the white race there. we shall. because the Japanese are trying to get in on the Pacific coast. say to the South Carolinians. " We shut the door of hope. so far as white immigrants are concerned. in your faces to keep them out. while we shut the Japanese out from the Pacific coast to keep them from competing with white people upon terms that are dangerous." The two questions are cognate.
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Generalization about 'ignorant and debased foreigners' reducing wages.