We do not desire to encourage those who come simply to labor for wages for a time. eventually to return with their earnings to the country from whence they came. It is such people who compete with our own labor and which are not desirable. Such immigration should be discouraged. It is only those who come here with the intention of making this their permanent home. with the intention of settling here permanently. and raising families here that we desire and which we ought to encourage. Now. Minnesota lies right alongside of Canada. and if this policy should be adopted. it would be impossible for Minnesota. with her vast unoccupied lands. to compete in immigration with Canada. I desire to have read. Mr. Chairman. in my time a clipping from the Geographic Magazine relative to the policy of Canada in this regard. which shows the effect that encouragement of this kind. either by a bonus or lowering the head tax. has upon immigration.
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