K.. the Greeks make up onetwentieth. and in Lowell more than oneseventh of the total number of operatives. The other races are scattered in comparatively small numbers through all the localities. Therefore. according to the showing of the report of the Immigration Commission. there is no incentive to the nativeborn American to enter into the mill work. for the reason that it makes no difference how long lie may be employed therein there is no chance. comparatively. for his skill to add anything to his earning capacity. This is delegated and handed over to the Ainerican inventor. who. immediately upon the wage of the operative becoming burdensome to the mill. finds a device that eliminates him and his skill and turns it over into the hands of the ignorant immigrant. Thetefore. according to the testiniony of the Tariff Board report. the comments by Dr. Copeland. the report of the Immigration Commission. the plea of the protectionists that we need these high duties for the benefit of American labor is a miserable sophistry. a lie that is not borne out by any facts. It is plain from the quotations that I have been at pains to gather that the only protection that an American nativeborn laborer has is the price of the steerage passage from Europe to America. and such law as Congress may see fit to pass restricting immigration into this country. In sharp contrast to the wage of $470 a year for the head of a fanilly engaged as an operative in cotton manufacturingaccording to the World Almanac for 1902ii Massachusetts alone there were 324 millionaires. more than three times as many as in all the Southern States combined. In the nine cottongrowing States of the South that produce the entire raw material there were in North Carolina. in 1902. one of these nine cottongrowing States. 8 millionaires. in South Carolina. 5. in Georgia. 5. in Arkansas. 5.
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Immigrants are described as ignorant and easily exploited, taking jobs from native-born Americans.