The siftiug process should be more thorough than it is at present. A nation is nothing more than an aggregate of families. and as we would exclude from the family hearth every objectionable element. so should we put up the bars against every element that might poison the healthy lifeblood of our body politic. or become a menace. l1hysically. mentally. or morally. The influx of European immigration went on unchecked for nearly a century from the foundation of the Government. For more than threefourths of that period we drew to our shores elements of population that have done noble work in the exploitation of our natural resources and the upbuilding of our industries. The bulk of that immigration was drawn from the north of Europe. from nations In which there was the strain of the blood that flows in AngloSaxon veins. and whose assimilation with our native population went on smoothly and almost imperceptibly. The English. Scotch.
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