For twentynine years it supported itsel/. That is to say. the per calita tax upon the arrivals supported the system. It permitted the employment of clerks to protect immigrants from robbery on their arrival and of physicians to cure the sick. and it enabled the building of habitations and of hospitals for the feeble. and under it arrangements were made which resulted as all intelligent members of Congress and all intelligent men know. in the taking. without cost to the country. of the best possible care of the immigrants. Those that wandered far away and came back weak to Now York were protected or cured or sent back to their homes. That system. by the Supreme Court. was destroyed. obliterated. after twentynine years of successful practice. without scandal or any opportunity for scandal. by the Empire State.
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