We are a spectacle to the whole world as a people surpassing all others with our native resources. with our aggressive enterprise. with -our intelligence. and with our future power in the world. And here is one of the grand items making up that power. I have felt for months that this item of immigration from the distressed and overtaxed nations of the earth was to be a new revelation to our people. But I little dreamed when I came here tonight that I would hear it confirmed as it has been. I press that as an argument why gentlemen should not turn away from this subject as .one possibly bringing profit to New York. Every immigrant that lands in Now York brings profit to the whole country. There must be a center of commerce. and there immigration will center. Within .a few years eight millions of immigrants from foreign nations have been landed in this country. and six millions of them have been landed in New York. Undoubtedly while we send two or three steamships each day from the city of New York. and two or three arrive there daily. the great majority of immigrants to this conntry will be landed there. There is no means by which this business can be diverted from New York. But I say let every seaport in the country have equal rights.
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