If.I have tim( before my time is up. -I will yield to the gentleman with greal plea sure. The result is these people band themselves together and -liv( in cheap quarters in our great cities and congested centers. and go into the factories and the mines at a low wage scale thal would not -support an average American workman living according to American -customs and surrounded bS American conveniences. This oncoming horde has driven the old immigrant from the factories and the -mines to mines in the Central Western States or in altogether different line of work. On the Republican side of the Chamber. in recent tariff dis.cussions. we heard much of the dire distress that would befall the American laborer if the Democratic idea of tariff for revenue only was enacted into law. Yet. Mr. Chairman. an investigatioi of the immigration question shows that it is not tariff reduction that should and is alarming the American wage earner. but it is the unjust competition of the class of immigrants who are now displacing him in factory and in mine. At this point I want to read. as beftring on this question. the following article from tile North American. The author says: Under the plea th at the standard of living In the -United States is higher than In any other country in the world. that the class of labor itself is better and that therefore greater wages must be paid. the manufacturers of textile products have succeeded for many years in buttressing themselves about with a tariff .that is not only protective but exorbitant.
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Immigrants are portrayed as living in cheap quarters and working for low wages, displacing American workers.