HopKiNs]. It has also been made by other people. and has a great deal of merit. The Hopkins bill provides that every man who goes through the Immigration Bureau at Ellis Island shall show to the inspector a certain amount of money. $50 perhaps. That requirement. Mr. IIOPKINS claims. will cut down the number of arrivals. and. moreover. will enable the newcomer to wait a little while and take advantage of such opportunities as may arise instead of going to work at the first job offered for very low wages. There is merit in that suggestion. Comparatively few of our immigrants last year had more than $50 in their pockets. yet. of course. the law might be constantly evaded if boardinghouse keepers and importers of contract labor should lend an alien a sum of money sufficient to pass the inspector. It is true that they might not lend it. They might think it was too great a risk to take. especially if we impose a severe penalty for such an evasion. The immigrant might refuse to give up the money if some one on board the ship informed him that the padrone would not dare exact it.
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