They do not come here with any view but of getting the highest wage they can get. sending the money back home. and going back there themselves as soon as they lose their jobs. I have in my hand a paper that gives in detail and at considerable length the condition of the labor market in the United States at given periods. The gentleman from Illinois spoke of the immigrants who had come to his city. I will state that at a given time there were a great many nmen who had families to support in the great city of Chicago. Ill.. who would have been glad to have employment at a living wage. who would have been glad to work upon the tracks of the railroads centering in Chicago. with. a view of supporting their families. who were deprived of work by the Mexicans who had been brought across the line into the United States. and who work right up to the city limits of Chicago on the railroads centering there. driving every man who would live as a respectable American citizen off the railroads by reason of the low wage they were willing to take. all on account of the low standard of living on which they were willing to live. and on which they do live while working upon our railroads. It is that class of immigrants. whether they can read and write or whether they can not. that I would bar from the United States. men who do not come here with a view of becoming citizens. but with a view of supplying our labor market and taking from the immigrant who comes here to become an American citizen. or the man who has been here long enough to have acquired citizenship. or who was born here. the employment which of right should be his. I say I would deprive these men who come here solely for the purpose of getting the advantage of our high wages of the right to come here to take the place of our citizens who are here and willing to do that work at a living wage.
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