Naturally. under the circumstances. they refused to remain. and at the first opportunity that presented itself many left that section of the country. I wish to assure the gentleman from Massachusetts that the people who come without being promised double and treble wages. who come here on their own initiative. and who are not misled by false representations as to the possibilities here. do go to work on the farm. and they remain on the farm and make excellent laboring men and excellent farmers. It has been stated on the floor of this House time and time again that the immigrants do not go on the farms. That Is a misstatement. for the statistics will show that a large percentage of the people residing in the rural districts of the northern. western. and northwestern sections of our country are of foreign birth or foreign parentage. I have before me figures taken from a report of the Bureau of the Census which show that in 1910 in the States of New York.
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