Instead of meaning $5 to every one of those men it means $5 multiplied by as many as there are in his family. down to the youngest child. and instead of restricting the coming of the man who means to stay but a few months to make a little money and go back. and the single man. you have penalized the man who intends coming here with his family to make this his permanent home and abiding place. So much for that branch of it. If there ever was a bill that should have been labeled a gift to foreign steamship companies. this is that bill. Who pays this head tax? The law says that it is a lien on the steamship. and the steamship company pays it. How does it pay it?
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