The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-27

(Jacob H. ScLiff, great in nanklng ma nnancial circles. is equally well knoun for his s.philanthropies. sfe IS q frnstee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund. Presidents of the Montefore Home ana me of the founders of the Jewish Lne- nlogical Seminary and the Nurses oec nernent. He has been the chie1 sup nort in many enterprises of social up- iift with which his name has not been rvnn remotely connected in public wav this absence of display has char acterized his connection with the move ment now successfully launcned m s Eaiyeston for looking after the emil rration which is being defiected to this sntIfh western port Mir. Schin Is cred ited with suggesting this idea, which if 1t be successfully carried out, prom lses to greatly relieve, if not to solve many of the perplexities of immigra- tion.)
 Is the agitation for restriction of im- migration justified? No careful stu dent of the history of this country, of It's progress in every direction, no one giving proper consideration to the po- sition it has attained among nations Of the world, or to the happiness its own people enjoy, can honestly give this an Affirmative answer.
 Within the limits of newspaper column, 1t is not possible nor necessary to elaborate on the manner. so well known and generally understood. in which this nation has gradually been built up from a small colony into mighty world-power. through the con- stant. unrestricted inflow of the surplus population of the Old World. Even af- ter all that has been said against the danger of permitting the coming of many. who. in the country of their ori- gin. have been classed as undesirable. it will not be denied that the American people. taken as whole. are the most law w-abiding and orderly people in the world.
 Take our large North Atlantic sea- port towns. New York, Boston, Phila- delphia or Baltimore, where so consid- erable q per centage of the great multi tude, which has come to our shores. has remained. No other factor has contrib uted so largely to the commercial su- premacy these cities have attained. as have the teeming thousands, who have flowed into them during recent decades. and who have added 70 largely to their working population. both skilled and unsl<iiled. It is this immigration that has made 1t possible for our merchants to compete and surpass in almost ev- cry bfanch of trade and commerce.. The worker in the tenement. who has hard ly Iearned to understand our language, but who tolls by day to earn mere pittance, does more 70 add to the greatness of the metropolis and to as- sure it's supremacy. than the native- born millionaire. who drives his four sin-hand in Fifth Avenue and Central Park.
 Why then restrict immigration? What is needed Is rather better dis tribution of the incoming masses than the putting up of barrier against their coming. It cannot be denied that housing and some other conditions in New York and the North Atlantic sea- port towns are not entirely what they should be, nor that with recession in trade and commerce. which sooner or later Is likely to come, there may not result an over abundance of labor. Through which quite a number who are now self-supporting, may be thrown put of employment. and a some what 3tfdcuft situation be created.
 While such conditions. if they come ran only be temporary and will pass, it Is nevertheless desirable if not imper- ative. that ways and means be sought, which, without interfering with the in- How and depriving the country of the beneflts immigration is still certain to bring 1t. shall so regulate the stream, that 1t will flow to centres. where not onIy it is actually needed. but where,