They are all provided for in a maner suitable to their several cases. They are saved from becoming the victims of the sharks that beset the city of New York. Already more than ten millions of immigrants have been distributed throughout the country. They learn our language. adapt themselves readily to our institutions. and become a vauable component part of the bodypolitic. It is not the design of this bill to check immigration. but to continue the beneficent supervision which the State of New York has.. up to the present time.. exercised over it. There are evils incident to immigration. however. which can be and ought to. be avoided. One of the chief of these is the advautago which is taken by local governments. mumicipalities. societies. and individuals of Europe to send to this country the dependent classes of Europe. for the purpose of relieving the countries to which they belong of their support. Thousands. of paupers. idiots. hmatics. criminals. and accused persons are being sent to this country at publie expense or the expense of relatives fbr the sole purpose. of shifting onto this country the expense of supportipg them There is a strong tendency. as matters noW axc. to fastuiuponthis country the system of hereditary pauperism that exists in Europe.
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