It matters not whether the foreigner comes here to weave and spin. to delve for coal and mine for metal. to plow for corn and cotton. to raise grapes and make wine. or to share our educational facilities and our other institutions. or our civil and religious liberty without hinderancethey come. But for their coining. as a writer in the North American Review states. the increase of our population. had it been confined to the excess of births over deaths from our beginning as a nation until 1880. would not have riven us 15.000.000. A hundred years more and our population would. but for immigration. have been less than what it is now. 50.000.000. The measure before us has bigher aims than the mere increase of wealth. It is humane.
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