Every attempt to use any other method has always proven disastrous. Wlile purporting to be a temporary measure. just for a year or so. this bill is really intended to pave the way to permanent exclusion. To pmevent immigration means to cripple theUnited States. Our most developed industrial States are those which have hail tile largest immigration. Our most backward States industrially and in the point of literacy are those which have had no inmigration to speak of. The extraordinary and unprecedented growth of the United States is as much a cause as the effect of immigration. Dekoenders of this bill thoughtlessly repeat the exploded theory that there have been two periods of immigration. the good period. which the chairman of the committee fixes up to the year 1.900. and the bad period since. The strange thing about it is that at 11o time in history has any country made such rapid progress in industry. ill science. aud in the sphere of social legislation as this country has shown since 1900. The new illnligration is neither different nor worse. mid besides that. identically the same arguments were used against the old illlmigration.
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