Exactly. and we coordinated in that policy by making the United States a dumping ground. and now we are shuddering a bit at the idea of establishing a strong administrative provision to give ourselves the right to choose who shalt come into this country at whatever hour we desire them to come. No higher privilege exists in all the world than the privilege of a great nation to establish its own standards of living and to protect those standards by its immigration laws. In Canada they have what they call their " order in council." If American emigrants desire to go to Canada. and to present themselves for admittance into the Dominion. they must first receive the approval of the governor in council. with his associates in the Government. and they choose. according to the metes and bounds established by their Parliament. the number that shall come in. I am merely asking that in this country we erect reasonable and elastic bounds. to be presided over by our own dependable officers. There is another provision in the amendment.
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