But it is going to have a more farreaching effect. It means that the St. Lawrence River will be filled with steamers bringing immigrants to the United States. It means on the other side of the ocean that the lines to Vancouver of the Canadian Pacific will bring the immigrants and land them at Vancouver. Wherever T al immigrant comes by land to this country he is exempted from the provisions of the law. Then. further. look at the hardship that is imposed upon the immigrant. Among the best immigrants we get are the few we get from France. the immigrants from Norway. and elsewhere.. Those people have got to come to Southampton to take their steamer. and they have got to pay that additional expense. That they must pay or else they must forfeit the sum of $10. which neither restricts immigration nor affects it in any way except to. impose an additional and unjust burden and hardship upon the immigrants to this country. whom we welcome under the conditions prescribed in the pending bill.
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