I said I would not occupy the time of the committee in discussing this matter here at any length. and I therefore ask unanimous consent to extend a few remarks in the RECORD and to print a few extracts from the statutes. and perhaps from the constitution of the State of Alabama and of some other States which are represented here by gentlemen who are all the time talking buncombe on the question of labor. and who are doing nothing for their people at home on this question. I question the good faith. I question the sincerity of gentlemen who come here and become very earnest and eloquent talking about labor. their interest in the working men and women. and their sympathy for the people. who in their home States do very little to improve the conditions of labor. where they have statutes in their States which are hostile to employees and servants. which provide that a person who persuades a servant to leave the employment of his master shall be imprisoned in the county jail. that a person who lires or entices away the employee of another shall be punished by a heavy fine. that a person who furnishes food or clothing to the apprentice of another shall be guilty of a penal offense. and that anyone who employs or entices from the employment of another an immigrant may be imprisoned at hard labor. It strikes me that it would be very appropriate for those gentlemen who make such loud and long speeches in Congress to go back and do a little something for labor in their own States and set an example by acts rather than by talking here and by offering resolutions and bills. In those States the Democratic Party is in absolute and unquestioned control of their State governments.
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