I am willing to concede all these things to be true. But we are legislating for the future welfare of America. not Greece and Rome. I intend to support this bill because the class of immigrants it is intended to prevent from coming here. by their ways and manner of living. tend to lower the standard of American labor. and by this statement I do not simply mean the lowering of the wage of labor. but also the social tone or standard of labor. I am inclined to think no one will dispute this. However. if such there be. permit me to ask him. if he had a son. would he consider him occupying as high a plane of labor when placed upon a public work with a gang of such laborers. with whom he could not converse and who inhabit crowded tenements or box cars. as if he were laboring alongside men who recognize the American standard of living?
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Immigrants from southern Europe lower the standard of American labor and live in crowded tenements.