Chairman. the purpose of this amendment is to put the farmer on tile same basis as the merchant or banker living in the city. This committee. after careful consideration. decided that the alien contractlabor provision of the law should not be applied to people employed as domestics. or as footmen or butlers. or in such capacities. At this time only 2 per cent of the immigrants ever reach the farms to work as laborers. and it would seem to me that the farmers. who constitute about onethird of our population. ought to be entitled to more than 2 per cent of the immigrant laborers. There is another feature to this. The farmers of the United States are now practically in open competition with the farmers of all the world. and upon that theory there should be freedom for the farmer to employ labor anywhere that he can find it.
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