If it could be said that this was a ease of the wisdom of youth as opposed to the prejudices of age and experience. of course to that argunlent I could make no reply. but s the Secretary of Commerce and Labor has the misfortune to be nearly a year older than I am. that fatal argument can not be made of the superior knowledge of the young. I repeat. sir. this is no new question to many of us. I began my work upon it. wheu we had only just got beyond the point of making some little restriction against the diseased and the criminal. and had levied a small head tax for the maintenance of the service. Even those provisions were objected to at the start. It was argued that it was an outrage to levy a tax for the maintenance of the service and that no diseased person ought to be kept out of the country unless he actually had the cholera or the smallpox. which would send him to quarantine.
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