There would not be a single vote cast in Its favor. because as against the patriotic intellect which condemns it. there is not one valid argument to uphold it. What are the reasons which the advocates of this measure assign for its alleged necessity? Latterday immigration. they say. is not what it used to be. It has deteriorated. and the elements that are coming now are not as desirable and as easily assimilated as the former immigrants were. It will be remembered that identically the same objections were raised by the Knownothings in the fifties against the German and Irish immigration and have been raised ever since against every kind of immigrants who came in considerable numbers. It is admitted now that it was mere prejudice against foreigners in general which swelled the sails of the Knownothing Party. and if It was prejudice then. what is it today? A few years ago the socalled Boxer movement in China culminated in infuriated mobs shouting. "Kill the foreign devils." Is it not humiliating to confess that. in spite of our boasted Christian civilization. we have a similar movement in America?
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Latter-day immigration is not what it used to be. It has deteriorated.