A mere tax of $10 a head can neither bring us any revenueat best it would produce only a paltry three to four million dollars a yearnor increase our commerce on the high seas. We can not increase it by any such method. Neither would it in a material degree retard immigration. All that it would accomplish would be merely to impose a burdensome tax upon those whom I regard as among the best and worthiest of our immigrants. There are two classes of immigrants that I think are undesirable. It is not only the criminal. the ignorant. whom we should exclude. but I do not think we crave any capitalists or men of wealth in this country. I think it is the people who represent the middle classes. the people without any money reserve. the intelligent working people of the Old World. who are the most desirable of our immigrants. The amendment amounts to nothing but a tax. a burden. Let us look at the state of the transportation lines which are plying between this country and Europe.
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