He says that they were no degraded brutes of burden. They had libraries. musical instruments. and the conveniences. comforts. and refinements of life. But immigrants poured in. so that the Immigration Commission. composed of Senator LODGE and a Republican majority and Democratic minority membership. composed of those who had investigated the subject thoroughly. found that at the time of making its report ninetenths of the employees were foreign born. and onetenth native born. instead of more than fivesixths. as formerly. Young Americans would delight to join that interesting company of welldressed. refined. reading. singing. young American employees. but they would avoid the other company and avoid labor. because It put them in such company and in a place so different in the estimation of the community. Every man acquainted with the industrial history of the South during and since the days of slavery knows that the importation of black people tended to drive the white people out of labor and tended to dishonor labor in the minds of proud young white people.
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Immigrants are degraded brutes of burden.