I do not propose to have him do it in secret. I propose to have some system by which immigration will be restricted to those who are eligible under the law. Perhaps this system may now and then act to some extent as an obstacle to legitimate immigration. but not to the extent claimed. Why. Mr. Speaker. there will be no difficulty in a person getting to this country if he is able to come. The trouble is now that people get here who are ineligible. This whole system. as it now exists. by which we undertake to restrict immigration by investigating immigrants as they come to this side of the waterwhile I admit the system may be as well carried out as it can be under existing lawsis necessarily a legal farce. Apart fromimmigrants who are returned or debarred from entrance on account of disabilities or on account of not being qualified under the labor lawsapart from those whose entrance into the country is debarred on account of their violating the laborcontract laws. the number of persons returned under the present system are so few that the system is absolutely a farce. At the same time our poorhouses. our jails. our penitentiaries are filling up with incapablesmen unable to~arn a livelihood.
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Poorhouses, jails, and penitentiaries are filling up with incapables.