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Exactly. We are not going. to get that kind of immigrants. Generally speaking. the kind that we shall get from both of these countries are the more enterprising. those who have more vision. those who have intelligence enough to compare our living standards and wage standards with their own. We are going to get. I think. from both countries a very much better quality of immigration than those on the present dole list. Here is what -the British themselves think about it. I am reading now from an article which was published in the Christian Science Monitor on April 2 last. a telegram from London: British employers. find themselves In somewhat of a quandary regarding the new American immigration quotas. which practically double the number of immigrants the United States will accept from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British quota is increased on July 1 next from 34.007 to 65.721. It is realized that a larger volume of emigration Is an urgent necessity for the densely populated United Kingdom. and while there Is a certain satisfaction that American lawmakers have seen fit to grant an increase of British applicants. while cutting down the quotas from other nations. there Is a feeling that such a high grade of immigrants as will be insisted upon by the United States ought to be diverted to Canada and other parts of the British Empire. It is recognized that the American consuls will grant visas only to people of character and respectability. This means that expert British mechanics now comprising the backbone of the countrys Industry have the best chance of acceptance and will naturally be attracted by the high wages and prosperity of America. Those who have been unemployed many months or years. however. will have small chance. It is said. of coming up to the standards of moral character. physical capacity. and industrial fitness wlich the new American law requires. That is what they think is the likelihood regarding British immigration.