I believe that one of the great causes of backwardness in the improvement of material conditions of the people of Europe Is the outlet to America. If the people of Europe. and particularly of southern Europe. were by some of our legislation required to stay at home. they would compel these obsolete monarchies. except in so far as their titular existence is concerned. to institute social reform and a larger degree of liberty among the people in their own countries. Emigration is the avenue of escape from dangerous conditions in their countries. which affords a constantly new lease of life to many of these monarchies abroad. In the interests of these people. as well as the interests of our own people. I think the Congress of the United States should give its early attention to providing the relief which is so necessary. The gentleman from Kansas has resented the insinuation by his colleague that there is foreign labor employed in his district. brought in. in violation of the contractlabor law. and yet only last year I saw the statement in one of the Topeka papers that more than a thousand Mexicans were brought in at one time to work on one of the railroads of that State. Can anyone doubt that this motley horde came in violation of the contractlabor law? The gentleman from Kansas and every other member of the Kansas congressional delegation received. when the immigration bill was under consideration in this body last January. the following letter. which -alone ought to have moved him to vote for that bill in the interest of "protecting" the American workingman: T HE ATCuIlsoN. ToPrErA & SANTA lE RAILWAY CO..
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