If we make treaties at all we will have to make them on terms satisfactory to the people who want to unload their surplus population on America. The regulation and control of this worldwide movement toward America must be retained unimpaired by Congress. I invite special attention to the polite. diplomatic phraseology used by the representatives. of tile Italian Governmient. in which It says that the Government of Italy would be "most willing to meet the wishes of the United States ini conforming the action of its emigratory services so as to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the American regulations if both can be made the subject of a specific agreement beforehand. as already suggested." Note the requirement that our regulations must be made the subject of a specific agreement with Italy beforehand. This makes It plain that any effort to bargain with foreign powers about foreign inspection and selection. if inaugurated. would at once place them in a position to clailn avoice in -the making of our immigration regulations. That Is the very thing that America must not do. That is the very thing that the friends of restriction do not want.
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