The proponents of the provisions of this bill. In a narrowness of vision seem to have lost sight of the birth. the purposes. and the history of this Nation. They who today set up the cry that European Immigration is the greatest menace to the welfare and wellbeing of the people of this Nation overlook the underlying principles of this Republic. This cry against honest. healthy. ablebodied immigrants with ready hands and willing hearts to work Is not a new cry. It Is the same old. narrow. selfcentered. selfish complaint that was made by narrowvisioned Americans even in the days when the Nation was in Its infancy. In the second annual. report of the managers of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in New York City. published in 1819. we read the following conclusions: As to the emigrants from foreign countries the managers are compelled to speak of them in language of astonishment and apprehension. Through this inlet pauperism threatens us with the most overwhelming consequences. On page 21 of the same report we find this calamitous complaint: For years and generations will Europe continue to send forth her surplus population.
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