Most of. hem-. ssessedlittle beyond i the sean thy:.sum i required for admittance. Virtually all of them immediately betook -themselves to the foreign " colonies" that have been established :in -American cities as .OidWrld. "mrt iyvrs.-s.distitctsa ready " verroWded beyond "decent andhealtlful .housing.capacity. fmostofthem ailreadycOntainIng thousands of idle woikingrnen. At the time this steamship and others with like cargoes:of human 4lotsam !were. coming to - our shores .Congress Was Conducting -hearings on the subject of immigration. It aslistenlngvith -the--usual congressional gravity to the spokESmcn6f this. "that or another- nationality. ".all ileading thlat -the Iway.df1:their brethren - gbroad - Into the land of promlse and plenty -mlght be free -and -unhampered. One -observer notekd. with keen perception. that "there were :few spokesmen for ..America present." Wit wgs admittedduritng thehearlngsi that- anyaction- Conpyess might thkeat ithe time would -be only temporary.Plio attenpt woulnd -.bemade toarrive ata.well~studidand"soundimmigration:-program designed to mineet :tlie greatdit need and the greatect g odd tthe country as a whole. .Yetthat -is exactly whatwe arcsupposed to have Congretis forto O.0ik out -sound -and -enduing solutions :for our- serious national problis. :suhl6 is:this.iuedtlon:6fvhb6lesale imnligri tion has7 become. Fal.feto neet the Isue.:squarely And -decisively. one"way or..another. is a tacit admission of the inability or theunuwillIngness"6f Congressto handle it. The average American can findlittle. comfort in either. explanation" he can only conclude that either heailiberor the dominant motie- of our -national tlgislators -has deseeded. to asorry. ldv~l. It has been maintained bythe.:dvocates of -UnrestriCted.immigration that some of this human oveimfi0w Soonerorlater -will reach the agricultural sections. It has not shown any tendencyli that direftlon yet. ".Andj -hat .IfitIdoes? -The .Amrilcaniffrmir is Dot Likely:.to be:able .tosn6dk Yiddish..or. Croatianor any oftheother--auguages or.dialects .ofls thcaftEdrope. AfVarmhanlto whom he cknnot explaln what le wants done aiid how to do it is of no use tothe alreadyhurrled farmer. He can not affordtokeep a.-n:inteirpreter. Moreover. there is a reasonable doubt whether the -American farmer wants this new type of Immigrant. to turn -to the -.land. .:-erhaps it would mean i--ai fiw!.years! arcouipition geardd to -standaids:of living and working much lower tlin the Aimericana anertcanrdr:will :en lure. California farmers haehad.-toface someof tlhat -sort. 6f.eonpetition . -so "have~ginaltthern fariers .so lhas auere than one "New England farmer. In no case has it:.nimde. for colittfitmfltitud progress. but has Iresultedin iracal thifferences.: bitterness.amid:qdte often thesdeparturo 6fthe. old- Unierican .tdek- fronI the- laud.
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Generalizes that immigrants live in overcrowded 'foreign colonies' and that farmers cannot communicate with them due to language barriers.