[W]e may fairly protest against any artificial action which tends to lower wages, and therefore makes a living wage more difficult to obtain. This free immigration of destitute aliens is to my mind an interference of that kind. We have a right to say that our social system is for ourselves and that we will not receive a destitute population which will lower the standard of our own population and increase the burdens we have to bear.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
That comment alone would result in Roberts’ vigorous expulsion from the modern day Democrat party!
Isn’t it funny how the same tactics are resurrected from age to age?