I can consistently argue that it is not that way. but how a man that favors a protective tariff to protect the products of labor of the factory or minein which laborers work can favor an open door to those who come here to beat down the price of labor and to directly compete with the labor itself is something that I can not understand. and such a protectionist can not explain or reconcile. They are the men who in the gentlemans State advertised a few years ago "Laborers wanted. Poles and Italians preferred." Why? For the same reason they preferred them over there at Youngstownjust as the railroads preferred the illiterate Mexicans in Kansas. when the letter of the railroad attorney was written to the Kansas delegation two years ago asking them to oppose the literacy test. because it was said the literacy test would keep out the Mexicans. 90 per cent of whom were said to he illiterate. They wanted these illiterate foreigners to beat down the price of labor.
Identified stereotypes
Foreigners are willing to work for lower wages and are illiterate.