They were wrong; it was illegal majority of the time. Three thousand Irish and ten thousand Chinese did the construction on the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. It took them four years to build and for the entirety of those four years, the people were only getting paid about one dollar a day. The railroads were both built longer in order to take up extra time, thus, getting extra money from subsidies from the extra towns they went through. While this wasn’t illegal it was very unnecessary and selfish. These type of business owners believed “a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.” (Page
They were wrong; it was illegal majority of the time. Three thousand Irish and ten thousand Chinese did the construction on the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. It took them four years to build and for the entirety of those four years, the people were only getting paid about one dollar a day. The railroads were both built longer in order to take up extra time, thus, getting extra money from subsidies from the extra towns they went through. While this wasn’t illegal it was very unnecessary and selfish. These type of business owners believed “a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.” (Page