I cite you an instance in my own town last summer. It is a small city of 6.000 people. 1.000 miles in the interior. A sewage system was being installed and the parties in charge. after seeking in vain for American labor. were compelled to employ for that purpose some of those Hungarian immigrants who have since returned to their native land. Why did they return? Not because there was not work enough that ought to be done. for necessary improvements and undertakings are abundant. but because of the rotten financial condition in Wall street there is not enough money in the legitimate channels of business to pay for the labor required in those inprovements. Set your financial affairs in order and work enough will be inaugurated to employ all of our own labor and all of the desirable labor from Europe that can be secured. Allow the honest. industrious people of Europe to come to our shores and they will greatly improve their own condition and will help to make this a better land for you and me. Sir. as the son of one of those immigrants whom a misguided portion of our people a generation ago sought to exclude. I could not stand here today and not say to those people longing for liberty. longing for a free home. and a happy fireside. "Come." My father came here as an Irish immigrant at a time when many people believed that his coming and the coming of others of his class should be prohibited. He helped. with others like him. to build the railroads. to develop the mines. to open the farms. to extend the business of the country. and I believe that this country has not been the worse for his coming. Sir.
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