I want to say. and it will not take long to do it. that those people who come from foreign countries to compete vith American labor are of the intellectual or reading and writing class. there is scant complaint of the laboring class that go into the sewers and do the rough work that is avoided by the students.. They are not welcomed into the cotton fields of the South or generally on the farm lands of the North.. The kind of ltibor that comes into the country and which the gentleman would bar is not competitive. if it had been the wages in the skilled trades would have gone down. and these wages. in spite of all the gentleman says about immigration. steadily have gone up. Why. we have the testimony of a distinguished labor leader. no other than Frank Moriison. the secretary of the American Federation. on certain phases of this question. and I hope I may get time to read sonthing that this intelligent leader has said upon the subject. But that reminds me of the fine campaign work that has been done in concentrating this movement in the body of the American Federation of Labor.
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