That is the very proposition to which I was going .to call the attention of the House and. of the country. I want to say that I have discussed this matter in person in lodges of the Junior Order of American Mechanics. of which I am a member. -and which is so deeply interested in this matter. as you all kmow. and I find that the minds of the members are very receptive to the suggestion that while the original law restricting the bringing in of immigrants under contract was perhaps instigated by that order. yet I believe that the -order is now willing to see an amendment to the effect that if the character of the man is certified and vis~ed as O. K.. and the purpose of his coming appears affirmatively to be a good one. the -man should come in. and that. if necessary. a good American citizen might be allowed to pay the way of that man to this country in order that -he might come here and be a producer. Three of the best citizens that ever lived in my section of the country. in the very neighborhood where I was born. were German boys. twb of -whom had served in the German Army in the FrancoPru�sian War. and who came to this country under contract. and two of them worked for my grandfather on his farm.
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