American labor can not be had. Italian miners are in the front rank of the miners of Europe today. These are the men who have driven the tunnels through the Alps. they are working in the mines of every country of Europe. and among the recent immigrants to this country are numbers of those men who will be a valuable addition to our army of producers. We need them im my State to open up farms. We have there thousands. yes. millions of acres of land suitable for homes that await but the coming of the class of labor which some gentlemen here would exclude. We have an immigration bureau that is saying to those people. " Come. here is work. here is land upon which you can provide for and educate your family to become citizens of the land of the free. We want you. we need your labor." The great State of Wisconsin has always extended to the immigrant a welcome. and he has repaid her generosity an hundredfold. nor does she fear that by his coining her institutions will be subverted or her civilization degraded. The laws we have enacted are a sufficient safeguard against the admission of dangerous classes and the officers intrusted with the enforcement of those laws should be provided with the facilities necessary for a careful. just. and humane administration of those laws. We want the people that such an enforcement of those laws will let in.
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