I do not know it now. I do not say that it is not so. What I want to say about it is that if this is a tax upon the incoming alien and is not borne by the steamship company it would oporate badly upon the question of immigration as affected by the bill. for this reason: Substantially 82 per cent of the present immigration coming from southeastern Europe is made up of single men. The 18 per cent who want to bring their wives are the ones out of that immigration we would like to have come. if any of them are to come. because when a man brings his wife and has a family there is a chance to make a citizen of him. Now. take all the other immigration36 per cent of all we are receiving now is of the old type coming from northwestern Europe. and they are the ones who bring their wives and their children. If this is to operate as a tax upon those men. women. and children coming. you can see at a glance what a discouragement it will be to a man who has a wife and. we will say. a family of three. four. or five children.
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