If I thought the amendment would accomplish the result for which the Senator is striving. I believe I would support It. because I realize how much our farniers need labor. and yet from our experience in my Stateand I believe it true all over the Unionwe find that the cities and the factories. with their high rates of wages. are drawing people out of the country. and nothing we can do by legislation can stop it. If this amendment be adopted. and if 50 per cent of the quota of immigrants shall be composed of farmers and farm laborers. skilled men. nevertheless that drain will go on. We can not establish any system of semislavery in this country that will hold them on the farms after they get here. Economic causes will continue to work their invincible will. these men will be drawn from the country. no matter if they shall be admitted as farmers. but if we increase the labor supply in the cities and In the country the effect is felt all over the country.
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