As late as 1.898 one of the tradesunions of New York protested against the Swedes and the Danes on the ground that theyinterfered very much with the keeping up of the wages in our trade. That Is the principal thing we find fault with. Now those Swedes and Danes were not immigrants from eastern or southeastern Europe. They were immigrants from northern Europe. and yet they were found fault with as late as 1898. It is a surprising thing that many of the advocates of the pending legislation are themselves of foreign birth. many of them. if they be of native birth. can not go back farther than one generation to foreign parentage. The educational test. in my judgment. is no test at all.
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