Speaker. we are called upon this afternoon to vote either for America or for the rest of the world. I am for America first. last. and all the time. We are called upon to decide by our votes whether we will legislate in the interest of our own beloved country. our own honest and deserving people. or In favor of foreign lands and alien people. whether our consideration.. justice. and charity shall begin at home or on foreign shores. whether we prefer the interest and advancement of the native and naturalized American citizen or the faraway stranger from beyond the seas. whether we will favor the four or five millions of unemployed American workingmen. or whether we will favor more than a million of idle aliens who are landed upon our shores every 12 months by a greedy Steamship Trust. When this bill was under consideration in this House a year ago. I read the following letter to show how aliens were used to underbid and take labor from our own people:
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