There wilf always be dangerous and unhealthy empl6yment. but publie: sentiment. as expressed through legislation. will require that these shall be reduced to the lowest possible minimum. We have much to do along this line. and these problems and many. others relating to them should be worked out under the most favorable conditions. It will be the part of wisdom for us to settle and determine many problems arising from the large foreign population we now have without Intensifying them and adding to their complications through a continuance of an increasing tide of Immigration. The congestion of laborers in our cities should be relieved by some proper system of distribution. Agricultural life should be made attractive to the foreigner. There are vast areas of public domain that should be settled and developed. When we have found the remedy for these conditions and when we have put into operation propei means of assimilation and distribution. we can then open the flood gates and allow the stream of foreign immigration to flow in. Would it not be well. in view. of these facts. to work out the necessary remedies? These can and will be found. The pr6blem is worthy the best endeavor of our statesmei and leaders of public thought. The flow of. Immigration should be temporarily reduced until we are better: prepared to take care of those who will come to us. This" legislation can be justified. in my opinion. on the highest hu-. manitarian grounds. We are doing little for the immigrant to permit him to come to us and lose himself in the congested tenement population of the city. If we can discover some adequate way through which we can immediately avail ourselves of his productive power. we will be doing him the highest service. and he will become a most valuable asset. He has been such an asset in thepast. but there is fear that he ia becoming a liability.
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