President. but I merely want to call attention to this particular feature. Of course there- is nothing here which enlarges in any manner the class of those who can come to this country. Any contract of that kind would be under the same restrictions that are provided in the bill for immigrants generally. If it was the policy of the country to exclude all foreign immigration. then I could understand why as one part of that policy those who need labor should be denied the privilege of going abroad and contracting for it to be brought here for this purpose. But that is not the policy of the country. The policy of the country. on the contrary. is to admit foreign immigration. and it is only restricted to the extent of excluding those who will be dangerous to the community by reason of their unfitness. As I said yesterday. there is no system which will more effectually carry out the purpose which we have in thus excluding the undesirable element of foreign immigration than a system which will have these immigrants selected by those who desire to employ them to labor. because any man who went abroad for the purpose of making a contract for labor would necessarily choose that which he would consider to be desirable labor. He would necessarily exclude from those with whom he would contract people who were diseased or immoral or in any wise incapacitated by reason of mental or physical defects to be firstclass in the performance of the contracts into which they were about to enter. There is in this no opening of flood gates. as the common expression is.
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