It is by this flow of immih ration into our borders that our country has increased more rapidly an any other nation in ancient or in modern times. We have now fifty million people. where within a century there were but three or four millions. This has been due largely to the system of foreign immigration coming from the European countries. which has enabled us to extend the boundaries of our country. utilizing new land and extending our civilization into regions that were a waste and a wilderness only a few years ago. In thirty years our population has doubled. and largely by the aid of this foreign immigration. It has been the public policy of this country to invite foreigners from all lands to come here. We have not only given them our public lands upon their declaring their intention to become citizens. we have made them in a very brief period citizens with the right to vote and hold office. we have protected them in their rights as against the country of their nativity. we have negotiated treaties or their protection against therights of their parent country. wehave threatened violence to defend them in their rights. and we have done the utmost we could not only to encourage their immigration but to protect and foster the immigrants. Last year there came into this country nearly eight hundred thousand immigrants from European countries. and this year in the two months that have already transpired this rate of immigration is increasing. and we are continually inviting imigration. The different States. especially of the South and of the West. have by emigration aid societies. if I may so call them. enticed and invited immigrants to come here from all the countries of Europe. Now. Mr.
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