Just a momentto restrict immigration and to prevent the annual influx to this country of 300.000 ignorant alien immigrants from the backward nations of Europe. who were being brought here for the purpose of displacing American labor in our railroads and factories. and lowering the scale of American livingwhen it was ascertained that the sentiment in favor of legislation to accomplish that purpose was so strong that it could not be defeated by direct methods. that legislation was antagonized. in the interests of the steamships and railroads who were largely responsible for this stimulated immigration. and defeated by the substitution for it of a commission to investigate and advise Congress how it should act in the premises. By these dilatory tactics this popular legislation has been delayed and postponed for three long years.
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Immigrants from backward nations of Europe are ignorant and displace American labor.