Speech #450080571

That is more time than I want. It will be seen upon a moments reflection that Port Huron has none of the difficulties in regard to this subject which have been experienced by the city of New Yorlr. A foreign pauper brought across the ocean never in the world could get to Port Huron. if he could get there he certainly would be no pauper. Therefore. the trouble in regard to paupers never would arise in Port Huron. The immigrants who go to the Western States. ready and willing to work. are worth man for man. each one of them. a thousand dollars to theState where they settle. Every ablebodied immigrant who comes here to work. and not to devote himself to politics. is worth a thousand dollars to the State where he settles. It is entirely another class of immigrants -who have made the trouble and expense in the State of New York. It is the immigrant shipped oft from the old country to relieve some almshouse or poorhouse. I think it will be found that everything that has been done by the city of New York in regard to the subject of immigration has been infinitely more beneficial to the immigrant than to the city itself. We have men in the city of Now York who are bad men. ready to pounce on the immigrant as soon ashe lands. Oar commissioners have been selected from the very best men in the city. and they have stood between the shysters and the immigrants. I believe that in the interest of the immigrants -we ought not to forget that there must be some care exercised in regard to foreigners many of whom cannot speak our language when they land here. and who come here to make their homes with us. even though they may in one sense be paupers.