I am willing to concede all these things to be true. But we are) egislating 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 nmanner of living. tend to lower the standard of American labor. and 1hy 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 lie considered him occupying as high a plane of labor when placed upon a public work with a gang of such laborers. with whom lie 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 or box cars.