D. C. DEAn SIn: From reports at hand It is apparent that the Dillingham bill for the restriction of Immigration is to be sidetracked as a political exigency. Let us quote from Mayor Gaynor. of New York: " You have the hardest police situation in the world to deal with. We have in this city the largest foreign population of any city. and a large number of them are degenerates and criminals. The gambling of the city is almost all in their hands. not to mention other vices and crimes. I The published names of everyone connected nearly or remotely with Rosenthal and his murder show them to be of the same class of lawless foreigners to which he belonged." The Dillingham bill Is the result of facts like the above and others equally alarming brought out by the report on immigration. After being brought face to face with these conditions. whatever latent and slumbering American patriotism there is should be aroused to the manifest necessity of a restriction of such immigration as has been proven beyond any question of doubt undesirable and positively injurious to America. Americans. and American institutions. Is it possible that the representatives of the people are beyond any patriotic impulse. except so far as political necessities require?
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Generalization that a large number of the foreign population are degenerates and criminals.