The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-09-19
IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.
Its Superiority in Australia Where No
One Lands Who Cannot Read Eng
lish-This Country Oyerrun by Il
Horde of IIiterates.
(Fibre and Fabric

tralia and asks entrance, he must Ce
able to read page from an Engl sh
book, selected at random and ii lac
cannot read the page selected he eau
not land i'm the-country
What a blessing it would ha e been
to America, if such laws were In force
during the past ten years. Our popu-
lation would not be 93,000,000 people
perhaps, but we would be many times
better off, if, with only S0,e96,G' } pto.
pie, we were free from the scum OF
every nation on earth.
For ten years or more we have been
the dumping ground for foreign coun-
tries and the result is, we have sew
eral million very undesirable people in
our land. men and women who are
sowing seeds of industrial and social
unrest and the most dangerous feature
of the situation rests in the fact that
our national lawmakers are showing
no indication OF checking the evil.
One David Jones of Melbourne
Aus, has been in this country inyesti-
eating the immigration question and
he says:
The United States has been made
great by its ninety-three millions, but
It looks 10 us in Australia that this
country had now ebst beware and
amend its immigration laws before ii
is overrun with a horde of undesirable
aliens.
Mr.. Jones' advice is good, but we
are already "oyerrun' with the horde
of undesrables. One crowd in which
not one in - know more than two
words in English, hell and scab' are
busily engaged in destroying our in
dustrial organizations and this partic-
ular crowd seems to have lawmakers
and politicians completely buffaloed.'
Every steamer landing at an Ameri-
can port unloads more of the undesir-
ables and Washington is playing with
the Panama canal or too busily en-
gagged in political controversies to
stop long enough to pass laws re-
strictinglimmigration
Mr. Jones further says: Australia
is to be a white mans country, We
will not have Chinese, japanese or Ne
groes, but we do want European immi-
grants who will develop our country
We have more territory than the Uni
ted States and only four and one-hall
millions of people to develop that inn
mense tract. Our resources are al
most limitless, but we need the peo-
pie TO develop them We will not have
and we will not have any
one who cannot speak and read the
English language.
We welcome the illiterates. evident
ly prefer them to those able to read
and speak our language, because the
iliterates can be more easily bUncoed
by steamship lines, boarding house
runners and keepers, ward heelers and
those higher up who manipulate much
of American politics locally and if we
had only desirable future citizens COM
ing in an easy living for small army
of sharks would be taken away. 1t
does not matter much, apparently il
our country is oyerrun by horde OF
undesirables. Foreign influence seems
to predominant and in conjunction with
foreign steamship lines, the men in
authority to regulate immigration
seem to be looking more to financial
gain than to the country's good. The
Australia idea is excellent and should
be copied here at once. Every alien
should be made to read a page from
English print before being freed from
the detention pen.