The Irish did that work a great inny years ago anod then they quit. Then they were followed by Swedes and Norwegians. and they quit it. and now in our country out in the West the building of railroads and the reconstruction of railroads is all done by another class of people. It is done lostly by immigrants from southern Europe. and neither the Irish nor the Germans nor the Scandinavians care about doing that kind of work. They look upon it as drudgery. They would rather ilake their living in any other wily. One unfortunate thing in the situation has occurred in our great commercial centers. There you find in certain trades and occupations. for instance. in the nmanfacture of all kinds of clothing there has been a rush from southern Russia and from the Balkan States of a lot of immigrants wllo. instead of going West and starting in with conmmunities there. where their labor is needed. whlere they could become independent. have settled down in large cities and have actually congested the supply of labor engaged. for instance. in the manufacture of clothing. Hence we have those sweatshops and we have strikes such as we have recently had there. because it is overcrowded. Ii have always thought that our iumigrant legislation should be supplemented by a bureau. an attachment you might call it. by which. when these immigrants come in. they should be taken in land and moved westward. where there is some space and where there is great need of help. and not allow them to remain and become congested in the large cities and industrial centers. If we want to avoid that condition we have got to do something. -Yet I ai greatly embarrassed. I wish we could lay down a rule by which we could exclude some of these educated trampstramps who are filled with socialism. who are quasi anarchists. and whocolie here to exploit the Government of the United States. I wish we could get some law to exclude them. I remember very well in the days of Populism. if the Senator will excuse me for taking up the time. when Populism was rampant in our country. we had a lot of immigrants who had just come over from different parts of northern Europe. They all joined Ilie Populist Party. They would not be Democrats. they would not be Republicans. and they joined that new party.
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Generalization that immigrants from Southern Russia and the Balkan States settle in large cities and congest the labor supply.