Speech #570068641

It is belittling. it is humiliating. This bill gives him that position. When it is borne in mind that Canada last year paid $500.000 commission to secure alien immigrants to their country. when it is also remembered that they had no exclusion laws and that any one of these people who wanted to could com into that country. one can see at a glance what a horde of undesirable people they have induced to come to their shores. and it. is not a rash statement to make that a very large number of this objectionable people have found their way across our border simply on account of the inefficient service that we have there at the present time. This state of affairs willbe remedied as soon as theamendmentoffered by me to this bill becomes law. the amendment establishing ports of entry along the Canadian frontier. where better watch can be kept on these people than is kept at the present time. where our force of inspectors and other officials will be concentrated on the Canadian frontier. I sincerely hope. Mr: Chairman. that. our New England friends. a large number of whom did not vote for this amendmentthat of establishing ports of entryand who objected to the head tax applying to aliens who might be visiting Canada and would want to come over for a dayor so to this country. will not be antagonistic to any further effort on the part of the Immigration and. Naturalization Committee to close that open gate on the Canadian frontier. because I noticed that all these members regarded with. astonishment that little amendment. and they feared it might interfere with free immigration to the United States from points adjacent to the homes of these gentlemen. I noticed they objected to anyone coming in at ports of this country along the Atlantic coast who could not read. It looked to me that these gentlemenwere not quite so particular about reform when it affected "the home market.." This is their position: They voted in effect that a good. honest. strong. healthy German boy or girl. or Irishman.