Ill this House men talk of the opportunities of the West. and only a day or two ago the distinguished gentleman from Oklahoma . in speaking against the Alaska railway bill. spoke of the opportunities awaiting the settlers who would come to cultivate the thousands of acres which were waiting for ownership and labor. The men supporting this bill. consciously or unconsciously. are but drawing a herring across the trail. They are fastening the eyes of the Nation upon the worthy immigrant. painting him in false colors. and diverting the people from a consideration of our own failures and derelictions. If the inlmigrant laborer here gets but a scanty wage. the fault lies not with him. but in the distribution of the fruits of labor. Let us lay the blame upon our own industrial system and not upon those who have to make their bread and butter under it.
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