The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-20
"Lest We Forget. /"

This issue of The American announc-
ing the passage through the Senate OF
an excellent immigration bill IS. 4403l
would not be complete without giving
to our readers the names of those Sen
ators who have done such effective
work and made such a hard fight for
the further regulation and restriction
of undesirable immigration into this
country. While the bill passed the
Senate without any open opposition it
has taken titanic struggle behind the
scenes on the part of these Senators 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 the sake of pc
cuniary gain.
The victry was won largely by GER
tain quiet, hard-working members of
the Senate immigration Committee,
who burned the midnight oil studying
the question, discovering the evils and
inventing remedies for which they
have worked increasingly. The names
of these men, who patriotically and
conscientiously seized the opportunity
offered to them by their being mem
bers of the Senate immigration Com
mittee, should be written on the walls
of every Council hall in large shining
letters letters lest their valian 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, now 10 the United States Senate,
who have already and without solici-
tation or promises of reward on our
part, raised their voices in the Senate
chamber to protest against inmigra-
tion abuses, who have worked hard in
and out of the committee preparing the
bill, who have labored hard for its con-
sideration before that body and who
have struggled successfully on the floor
of the Senate to perfect and pass it.
They are Senators Dillingham;, Lodge
Penrose, ,Latimer, Simmons and Nc
Creary. There are others, but it is to
those Senators most of all that we owe
the passage of the Senate Immigration
Bill on MAY %, 1906. 1t was Senator
Dillingham; that prepared the many Sc
lective provisions contained in that bill
which will go far toward reducing the
large number of detectives, degener-
ates and dependents that are now be-
ing dumped upon this country by profit
making steamship companies, often at
the instance and with the connivance
of foreign Governments and local Of
fcials anxious to get rid of their insane
criminals and public charges. To Sen
ators Lodge. Simmons, Latimer and
Penrose is to be given the credit for
the Senate adopting the illiteracy test
for aliens, which is the really material
ly restrictive provision OF the bill, and
which will sift out from 10 to 80 per
cent. of the present indiscriminate in
hUx, or most of the undesirables.
To the Southern Senators, Simmons,
Latimer and McCreary, who are anX-
ious that the South should getits share
Of the desirable Immigrants, belongs
the entire credit for the increase in the
head money to five dollars and for the
of Division of Immi-
grafton which is expected to distribute
aliens to some extent and to help pre-
vent their further concentration and
congestion in the slums and sweat shops
Of our large seaboard cities where they
are such menace to our institutions,
iderls ant very civilization itself.
One of the most practical and COM
nonsense devices contained in the bill
for keeping out objectionable aliens
md for compelling the foreign steam
ship companies to respect our immi-
grafton laws, and which will 60 long
way towards preventing these selfish
interests from using this country as a
dumping ground for making money out
If hauling off the scum Of Europe: is to