When Johnson first came to Hoquiam. the principal streets were all planked and two sloughs ran their sluggish course through the heart of the city. Logging and lumbering were the heart and soul of the entire area. and the harbor fishing industry. then in its infancy. was almost forgotten as virgin timber poured through busy sawmills to supply a neverending demand for lumber for a growing and expanding nation. It was during those days. while watching the influx of great numbers of people from all nations Into the pioneering communities of the West. that Johnson first began thinking of restrictive immigration. of immigration limited to the ability of the Nation to absorb the increased population without an enforced lowering of the standard of living. In 1912. when Woodrow Wilson. William Howard Taft. and Teddy Roosevelt fought for the Presidency as Democrat.
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