speaking on the floor of the House one day on the subject of immigration. gave a graphic description of how the highly protected New England cotton mills import large numbers of the cheapest class of foreigners. " For example." said Mr. GARDNER. " suppose I am a Syrian conducting a Syrian boarding house in the city of Lowell. Mass. Perhaps some mill sends down to me for hands. I furnish them at a somewhat lower rate of wages than is expected by ordinary citizen help (American help). I find recurrent opportunities to supply the cotton mills with Syrians. " Soon I h6ar that another mill is about to make an extension. so I say to myself.
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