That is the contractlabor law and the law prohibiting the introduction into our country of paupers and insane persons and others of the lowest and the dirtiest and meanest of men. What have been the statistics as to these classes? I find from an examination that the number of alien contract laborers returned to the countries whence they came from March 1. 1889. to March 31. 1894. was 2.887. whereas the total number of immigrants from 1889 to 1894 was 2.985.000. In 1894. when our immigration amounted to 314.467. the following were returned under that law: Contract laborers. 461. those designated as a public charge. 427. convicts. 1. and diseased persons. 2. thus showing a return of only 891. The percentage of those which our system has been able to catch and return has been so infinitesimal that it is not worth talking about. We have absolutely let in everybody who was shipped here. The laws which we have are not worth the paper on which they are written. so far as restricting and keeping out undesirable immigrants is concerned. Now. Mr.
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Immigrants are described as 'the lowest and the dirtiest and meanest of men'.