They will have to show it before they start to satisfy the steamship company. and then they will have to show it after they get off the steamship to satisfy the United States authorities. The steamship company is hardly likely to give them $50 apiece to show after they got off the ship. I am in favor of the restriction of immigration. but I am in favor of the restriction of unfit immigration. I am not in favor of any provision which merely restricts immigration simply because it does restrict it. I would not levy a tax upon a comparatively poor man under the pretense that it is necessary for the administration of the immigration laws if it were not really necessary. but for the protection of the American people I would not only be entirely willing but glad to vote for a provision that a certain amount of money should be shown by the immigrant to be possessed by him before he landed upon our shores. say. $50. an amount which. in our opinion. furnishes a good security against his becoming a public charge.
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