Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-06-27
LEST We FORGET" The ISSUE.
DILLINGHAM;, LODGE, PENR0sE, LATiMER,
SIMMONS AND McCREARY.


bill Is. 4,403) would not be complete
without giving to our readers the
names of those Senators who have
doEe such effective work and made
such hard fight for the further reg
ulation and restriction of undesirable
immigration into this country. While
the bill passed the Senate without
any open opposition it has taken a
titantic struggle behind the scenes
on the part of these Senator'S to win
this victory against the foreign
steamship companies, the large en-
ployers of cheap labor and other
selfish interests that would PROSTATE
this country's welfare for tn" axe of
pecuniary gain.
The victory was won largely by
certain quiet, hard working members
of the Senate immigration Commit
tee, who burned the midnight oil
studyine the question, discovering
the evils and inventing remedies for
which they have worked increasingly.
The names of these men, who pa
triotically and conscientiously seized
the opportunity offered to them by
their being members of the Senate
immigration Committee, should be
written on the walls of every council
hall in large shining letters lest their
valiant work be in the least forgotten
or fail in the least of appreciation in
the future.
Here are the names of six of these
men, new III the United States SEN
ate, who have already and without
solicitation or promises of reward on
our part, raised their voices in the
Senate chamber to protest against
immigration abuses, who have worked
hard in and out of the committee
preparing the bill, who have labored
hard for it's consideration before that
body and who have struggled success
fully on the floor of the Senate to
perfect and pass it. They are Sena-
tors Dillingham;, Lodge, Penrose,
Latimer, Simmons and McCreary.
There are others, but it is to those
Senator'S most of all that we owe the
passage of the Senate Immigration
Bill on May %, 1906. 1t was SEN
ator Dillingham; that prepared the
many selective provisions contained
in that bill which will 60 far toward
reducing the large number of de-
fectives, degenerates and dependents
that are now being dumped upon this
country by profit-making steamship
companies, often at the instance and
with the connivance of foreign gov
ernments and local officials anxious
to get rid of their insane, criminals
and public charges. To Senators
Lodge, Simmons, Latimer and Pen
rose is to be given the credit for the
Senate adopting the illiteracy test
for aliens, which is the really ma
terially restrictive provision of the
bill, and which will sift ont from 40
to so per cent of the present indis-
criminate influx, or most of the
undesirables.
To the Southern Senators, Sim
mons, Latimer and McCreary, who
are anxious that the South should
get its share of the desirable immi-
grants, belongs the entire credit for
the increase in the head money to
five dollars and for the establishment
of Division of Immigration which
is expected to distribute aliens to
some extent and to help prevent theii
further concentration and congestion
in the slums and sweat shops of our
large seaboard cities where they are
such menace to our institutions,
ideals and very civilization itself.
One of the most practical and
common-sense devices contained in
the bill for keeping out Objectionable
aliens and for compelling the foreign
steamship companies to respect our
immigration laws, and which will 90
long way towards preventing these
selfish interests from using this