Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-05

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 passed an act March 3, 1905, authoriz- ing in the year 1907, on and near the
 waters of Hampton Roads, in the state ! of Virginia, an International naval,
 marine and military celebration in hon.
 or of this event. By the authority vest
 cd in me by this act have made proc 1 lamation of said celebration and have ] issued in conformity with it's instruc- l tions invitations to all the nations of i the earth to participate by sending i their naval vessels and such military
 organizations as may be practicable. i This celebration would fail of its full ] purpose unless it were enduring in its 1 results and commensurate with the inn | portance of the event to be celebrated, | the event from which our nation dates l its birth. earnestly hope that this l celebration, already indorsed by the 1 congress of the United States and by i the legislatures of sixteen states since 1 the action of the congress, will receive i such additional aid at your hands as will make 1t worthy of the great event ] IL 10 4AktAthEtl lb NtltDI dlc dIu lltItpl l enable the government of the United 1 States to make provision for the exhi- 1 bition of its own resources and like <, wise enable our people who have un- 1 dertaken the work of such a celebra- 1 ton to provide suitable and proper en- i tertainment and instruction in the his- 1 toric events of our country for all who
 may visit the exposition and to whom 1 we have rendered our hospitality. 1 Pensions.
 | It is a matter of unmixed satisfac- 1 ton once more to call attention to the 7 excellent work of the pension bureau. ! for the veterans of the civil war have i a greater claim upon us than any other class of our citizens. To them first of
 all among our people honor is due. Seven years ago my lamented prede- i cessor, President Mckinley, stated that ] the time had come for the nation to
 care for the graves of the Confederate
 dead. I recommend that the congress
 take action toward this end. The first | need is to take charge of the graves of the Confederate dead who died in northern prisons.
 Immigration.
 The question of immigration is of vital interest to this country. In the year ending June 90, 1905, there came to the United States 1,026, GOO alien i'm migrants. In other words. in the single
 year that has just elapsed there came to this country a greater number of people than came here during the 169 years of our colonial life which inter vened between the first landing at Jamestown and the Declaration of h.
 dependence. It is clearly shown in the
 report of the commissioner general of
 immigration that while much of this
 enormous immigration is undoubtedly
 healthy and natural. a considerable
 proportion is undesirable from one req
 son or another; moreover, a consid-
 erable proportion of it, probably very
 large proportion, including most of the
 undesirable class does not come here
 of its own initiative, but because of the
 activity of the agents of the great transportation companies. These agents
 are distributed throughout Europe, and
 by the offer of all kinds of inducements
 they wheedIe and eajole many immi-
 grants, often against their best inter-
 ests, to come here. The most serious
 obstacle we have to encounter in the
 effort to secure a proper regulation of
 the immigration to these shores arises
 from the determined opposition of the
 foreign steamship lines who have no
 interest whatever in the matter save
 to increase the returns on their capital
 by carrying masses of immigrants
 hither in the steerage quarters of their
 ships.
 As I said in my last message to the congress. we cannot have too much immigration Of the right sort, and we should have none whatever of the wrong sort. Of course it is desirable that even the right kind of immigra- ton should be properly distributed in this country. We need more of such immigration for the south, and special effort should be made to secure it. Per haps it would be possible to limit the number of immigrants allowed to come in any one year to New York and other northern cities. while leaving unlim- tied the number to come to the south: always provided. however. that a stricter effort is made to see that only immigrants Of the right kind come 10 our country anywhere In actual prac- tice it has proved so difficult to enforce the immigration laws where long stretches of frontier marked by an i'm aginary line alone intervene between us and our neighbors that recom- mend that no immigrants be allowed to come in from Canada and Mexico save natives of the two countries them selves As much as possible should be done to distribute the immigrants upon the land and keep them away from the cOngested tenement house districts of the great cities. But distribution is a palliative. not a cure The prime need is to keep out all immigrants who will not make good American citizens. The
 laws now existing for the exclusion
 Of undesirable immigrants should bt
 strengthened Adequate means should
 be adopted. enforced by sufficient pen
 slties, to compel steamship companies
 engaged in the passenger business ts
 observe in good faith the law which
 forblds them to encourage or solicit
 immigration to the United States
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