Genoa. and Leghorn -------------3 Total ------------------------------------------------- 49 As against this total of foreign lines and steamers we have only one line. the American Line. with 4 steamers. running only to Southampton. Out of a total of 53 steamerspassenger steamersthat are plying across the Atlantic. we have only 74 per cent. It is evident. therefore. that to put a tax of $10 a head upon every passenger who does not come in an American ship would not help to encourage American shipping. would not retard immigration. it would merely impose a head tax upon humanity. I would rather vote for a bill which would exclude immigration altogether than to vote for a measure of this kind. I think one of the last subjects of taxation to which we ought to resort in this country is a tax upon our common humanity. upon those who are less fortunate than we are. That would make this country. now the land and the home of the free and the model country of the world. the most mercenary and most selfish of all the nations on the face of the earth.
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