Mr. Chairman. I think it stands to reason that if. as the gentleman from Pennsylvania says. the rich are to be permitted by law to import butlers and domestics. and that class of servants. the same as in the past. the farmers. who now get only 2 out of every 100 immigrants who are admitted into the -United States. ought to be permitted at least to employ farm laborers from other countries without regard to the aliencontract provision. A few months ago one of our North Dakota farmers. a Mr. Lockin. in order to save his crops. drove in search of help to a neighboring town. which happened to be across on the Manitoba side. ie picked up five men over there. brought them back. and they went to work on his farm. Soon after that an immigration officer arrested theue five men. who happened to be Austrians. and arrested the farmer. and pat them all in jail. where they waited until their trial. in December. Our district judge. Judge Amidon. being a broadminded man. with a rare sense of justice. and taking a broad view of the situation and of the immigration law. let the farmer off with a nominal fine of $5 and released the five Austrians. But the immigration officer seemed to be somewhat outraged by that decision. He ordered the deportation of the aliens to Austria. not Canada. and he brought a civil action against the farmer for $1.000 for each man he had so employed. making a total of $5.000. That action is still pending against him. and if it is pressed and he has to pay. it will ruin him. The treatment of Mr.
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