. "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition. r verylittle. Still Mr. Ford may be supposed, from hisposition, to know what he is talking about, forhis committee has spent a great amount of timein examining a great many witnesses who aresupposed to understand the nature of the immi-gration to this country of the peoples of thewhole world. But enough about paupers, idiots,insane and criminals; everybody is agreed thatwe do not want them. Are there
. "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition. r verylittle. Still Mr. Ford may be supposed, from hisposition, to know what he is talking about, forhis committee has spent a great amount of timein examining a great many witnesses who aresupposed to understand the nature of the immi-gration to this country of the peoples of thewhole world. But enough about paupers, idiots,insane and criminals; everybody is agreed thatwe do not want them. Are there any other classes whom we do notwant ? Yes ; we cannot afford to have the con-tract laborer. The native labor organizationshave talked a good deal of nonsense about theforeigner, but not on this one subject. The impor-tation on contract of men to do a certain amountof work for a smaller sum than American citizenswould accept, and to carry back almost all theirearnings to be spent in another country, is a verysuccessful way of making a nation poor. If wewere to send all of our money to Europe for thepurchase of supplies and Europe were to buynothing of us in return, it would soon be impos-. IMMIGRATION. 353 sible to raise enougli coin to buy a postage contract labor is a transaction of exactly thesame nature, and it is increasing at a rate tbatmay be estimated from the known ability andwillingness of large employers to have work doneas cheaply as possible, regardless of the conse-quences to every one but themselves. When, however, statesmen or politicians, ordemagogues or well-meaning labor agitators orleaders, insist that skilled labor should be keptout of the country, it is to the interest of thecommunity to firmly, persistently and indig-nantly oppose any such proposition. Lack ofskilled labor is the curse of the country. Be-cause a man is employed on work which requiresskill and experience is no sign that he is fullycompetent to do it. The tramps who bind thefarmer
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