Can we divert this foreign population to where competition will not strangle the American wageearlier and place it where new fields await development? How are we going to do it? I remember watching the chairman of the Immigration Committee while he was waiting like "patience on a monument smiling at grief" for his bill to be brought up. It is true that we attached to that bill an educational test. which I heartily approved and voted for. but remember that a bill with such a provision has been for months slumbeiing at the other end of the Capitol. We have never had an immigration law that was restrictive. They have simply prohibited the landing of idiots. the insane. and those who. by physical incapacity. would be a1 charge upon the public. I am in favor of drastic measures on this subject. but have little hope of seeing them enacted into law. So I favor this bill. under which the intelligent. progressive. loyal. and patriotic American can have opened up for settlement lands capable of supporting 30.000.000 people and provide employment for our surplus labor until some enactment by which intelligent and assimilative immigration. not detrimental to the laboring people of this country. can be secred.
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