In fact he pays a higher price for everything that he buys and consumes. But the increase in price of labor applies not only to the railroad men. but it applies to all other classes of labor in the North as well as in the East. Therefore I can not understand. in view of these figures. how any man can maintain that immigration is detrimental to American labor. The immigrant performs the coarse and common labor which produces the raw material. and thereby creates a higher class of labor and a better wage follows. The man in West Virginia who works in the mine provides employment for thousands of others. the same as the man who works in the forest and the quarry. He produces the raw material which is worked into a product that creates a continuous demand for higherpaid and more skilled labor. This succession creates work for the skilled laborer. which is placed in the hands of the American laborer. This conclusively proves that the immigrant does not replace and put out of work the American laborer. but. on the contrary. furnishes him with a greater field to practice his art of skill. In addition. Mr. Chairman. some of these gentlemen are attempting to make the House believe that they are favoring this bill because the immigration of the present day is not the same kind of immigration that we were getting 30. 40. or 50 years ago. If you will investigate the records. my friends. you will see that the same objections were then raised against the innmigrants from Scotland. from England. from Germanyin the forties. the fifties. and the early eightiesas arebeing raised today against the present immigrant. I wish to assure the House that the immigration of the present day measures up to the immigration that we have been receiving heretofore.
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