Not so. gentlemen. In my opinion. New York greed and the desire for the immigration traffic. which is a traffic for gain just as was the slave traffic in the early days.of this Nation. is to blame primarily. But. thoroughly alarmed. the New York authorities threatened to stop the immigrant ships from docking in their port. That threat was followed by the steamship people at once transferring their places of debarkation of many of their ships to Boston. Providence. New London. Philadelphia. and elsewhere. and that caused a protest in Nev York. That city seems to want the business. my friends. it wants the ships to come in and wants the immigrants. but when a disease happens they want to unload the whole thing on the United States and pass the buck and pass the expenses on to the United States. and complain in the newspapers that the United States is trying to make New York pay the bill. It is the old cry that we have heard for many years when the New York City officials complain that their hospitals have become filled with the insane. the demented. and the mentally weak. and they come to Congress and appeal to us and ask that we. speaking for the whole people. have the Treasury pay the bill. You have that situation here.
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