Will the Senator hear the evidence before he makes up his mind? I say frankly that the object of the suspension for one year of alien immigrants is to break up steerage passages. Dr. Ewing says: To my mind the chief danger lies in the immigrant and his luggage coming to our shores. and that danger is very great under the methods heretofore in vogue. Dr. Stephen Smith says: The cholera germ may be transported in a viable state in a warm. moist medium. as soiled old clothing. The conditions favorable for the transmission of the cholera germ. therefore. are found in steerage passengers (the common immigrants) and their personal effects. The immigrants. also. are far more liable to be exposed to personal contact with cases of cholera in foreign ports than ordinary travelers. It follows that cholera Is more likely to be conveyed by immigrants than by any other means known. Dr. Janeway says: Almost all of the danger of the introduction of cholera into the United States will be by means of steerage passengers and their effects. This is almost equivalent to saying by means of immigrants and their effects. There isno reasonable doubt that the suspension of all immigration for one year from March 1. 1893. except that from North and South American ports. would tend very strongly to prevent the introduction of cholera.
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