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shores, and is not, in fact, very well en-.

in part, or wholly, in the hands of federal
officers, untrammelled by party or loo al in
fiuences. and directly responsible to the de-
partment of the treasury.
Second-The examination should be thor
ough and vigilant, and the capacity of each
immigrant for self.support should be satisfac-
torily established before he is permitted to
land.
Thrd-The procedure at the various ports,
so far as practicable, should be uniform and
reciprocal, and concurrent legislation on the
part of the states should facilitate this pro-
cedure.
Fourth-Vioations of the statute in bring
ing criminals, insane and otherwise helpless
or vicious persons to the country should sub
Ject the owners of the vessels Implicated to q
fine in each case, in the nature of libel on
the vessel, to be enforced in the proper
courts.
Fifth-Certi6cates stating that the immi-
grants are neither criminals. lunatics nor
chronic paupers, with the Endorsement of our
consuls and commercial agents abroad, should
be transm tied to the authorities Of the port
at which they are to land, and the immigrant
provided with duplicate of the same.
ANOTHER ONE.
A paper on Immigration and migration
their effects in different countries and
communities on pauperism, crime and ill.,
sanity" prepared by F. B. Sanborn Of
tCi4N'Oeeo' eao Iehl Wy L. II. w lu6S
OF Illinois, from which the following is
taken:
Within the past fifty years immigration has
particularly affected the Germanic and Celtic
races. There are more people of English de-
scent IN America to-day than in England,
more Irish than in Ireland, and more Danes
than in Denmark AS yet we have very few
OF the Latin nations, but the Italians and
french have begun to come. For the past
seventy years we have received 10000, 900
Immigrants of whom 100000 are probably
living now. The foreign born population
furnishes more than its proportion of pau
pers. vice, crime and insanity, especially in
the Northern, Western and Pacific states If
the figures are correct these are five times
as large among the foreign born as among
Americans. One cause of this is that the
desire to leave ones country does not usually
possess the comfortable. One of the results
is strikes and street riots, until laws have
been passed by congress to protect the coun-
try. Every nation has an undisputed right
TO control its own population, Danish them or
prevent them from leaving, say who shall
come in or who go out though the practice
ideas might be injurious. Migration is the
method OF all history for regulating the popu-
lation of the world.
A. o. Wright of Wisconsin opened the
discussion and thought that many of the
bad effects of immigration were caused be-
cause OF the systematic sending of immi-
grants to this country by the local authori-
ties in different countries. The shipping of
paupers from one part of the country to
another is constantly going on in this coun-
try by the local authorities, with the prin-
cipal object of getting rid of them. Some
OF these were shipped from one end of the
country to the other by easy stages. This
system OF encouraging pauperism should be
abolished.
VARYING VIEWS.
DR.. Richard Gundry of Maryland said
that If Immigrants were taken to strengthen
the country their weaknesses must be taken
with them. He had heard for the first time
first time that the American government
had right to regulate the movement of its
people. He said there was a snake in one
of the paragraphs of the committees report
and he proposed to show it. What kind of
an examination should be established for
immigrants. 1t was not charity to invite
foreigners here and then ignore them.
Rabbi SOnnescheim said he landed in
New York eighteen years ago, one of those
wandering Jews; to-day he was wander
ing Jew. He did not see how the descend
ants of the old settlers of this country could
forget that their ancestors were migrants.
He could not understand how the descend
ants OF the pilgrims of the Maytlower could
deny any poor honest man. He could
understand how the emigrants landing here
10, II or II years ago could assist in ADOPT
ing measures to protect this country against
the very otfal of Irish, German, Polish or
Russian Sums. Applause. We want
the Woodworking, thrifty, honest imm-
grant, and nobody else. He was proud
that it was his native empire of Austria
Hungary which was the first to understand
the condition of America regarding the last
recommendation of the committee. No
body emigrated from those countries except
they were obliged to. They could remain
there and be contented and happy. But
those who We're the dregs of the country
emigrated to this country.
BISHOP IRELAND.
Bishop Ireland said he thought they all
agreed on the main points. Immigration
from Europe was all right if it was the
right kind.
immigration had built up this country. 1t
would be only right by the United States gov
eminent to ward off the unfit subjects He
wanted to explain the statement made that
foreigners furnished the most crime and
pauperism. He knew that figures from aims
houses and prisons seemed to be prima facia
evidence of this. Nearly all came intending
to be honest, but landed poor and were sub
ject to ali the temptations of poverty. Pau
pers should be protected. Everything about
them in the big cities led to intemperance
1t was impossible to obtain laws in the
large cities to get laws prohibiting this
The politicians were the very ones to
take them to the saloons for their votes
Those who had been here a few years looked
down with contempt on those poor wretches
yet were unwilling to cast their votes to
help them. People should stgmatize the
great cause of this evil. The cities were
their ruin. That many aldermen were low
graded saloonkeepers was true, more or less
throughout the country. What was wanted
were strong restrictive laws against saloons
There should be laws to protect the children
of the poor that they could not befrieud
their greatest enemy at ten years of age by
giving their consent.
Bishop Ireland was loudly applauded
throughout his speech and vociferously at
the end. He was followed by William p.
Letchworth of New York. He said it was
to the emigration of paupers and criminals
to which a stop should be put 1t seemed
to him that some of these evils should be
corrected where they existed. Bishop
Whipple was applauded ON ascending the
stage. The word Barbarian was changed
to brother by one of the first lessons of
Christ. All agreed that crime, at home or
ABROAD, nad forfeited It's rights and should
be confined. but he had not the slightest
fear of having the poor and downtrodden
come to this country if the people here did
their duty. He had yet to know single
instance of one of these men coming to
Minnesota, when Minnesotians did their
duty, who had not become an honor to the
state. He believed America was solving
the problem of history; that after
in hod al
it was taken from the South and given to
the Anglo-SaXon from the North that all
nations might be fused into one. If this
problem was looked in the face it would
be solved. DR.. A. G. Byers expressed his
sympathy with what Bishop Ireland had
said of the crime being brought on by the
temptations of intemperance. w. Alex
ander Johnson of Chicago said he was one
of those immigrants, and also came from
a country from which no one emigrated I'M
less something was wrong with him. He