The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-05-10

We assmated this Of immigration pouring shores
have become used to the chant of the old phrases nce Sam
rich enough to give us all home the boundes resources of
country that scant heed to the warnings
given us that there is possible limit to our ability to assmate the
The influence of this influx immigrants upon industrial
life has been dwe and again There be need
article will deal another phase the influence of unrestricted
immigration upon the moral and physical w6eng of the nation
ton sweeping into this country It the first state to feel its effects
may be taken as fairly accurate of conditions.
New York the first and greatest sufferer by any break in
insane defective of other countries said Dr. Geo
Gdmp Can n o the state n n mission Of & %pr
The class that gains admission into this country when the rightly
The epeccs require
than superficial examination for discovery the who slip
the health morals of the community They
the detectives who and disseminate the ailments they
early days immigrant had be ableboded hardy
person to the hardhps coming country He had
live food he brought with him. sleeping his bedding
and caring for himself in every through the long ocean trip
Not The increased care and comfort for the mm
lea benevoence exhibited thousand societies
for the and care Of the very classes when would
guiding principle of immigration policy and the opening of
the land of liberty to all who seek her shores
New York the lead in fighting the foreign defective
New York gets him first and keeps him longest
Thre $4,000 insane in New York state hospitals
Thirteen thousand of these alien born There insane to-
Governor John A. Dix say concerning
1--WE have hospitals about $4,000 insane patients
there increase of about 100 month"; which out of all
proportion to the increase IN the population OF the state rms
abnormal increase the number of insane due to the large number
foreign born who develop insanity after they
The annual cost York of maintaining the insane
46 of the population of the hospitals
for of foreign birth have become convinced that
of abon to enter this country so that we NAV be protected
from the entrance of those who likely to become public burden
The following dispatch appeared in the Associated Press
few days
the inadequate facilities for the examination and
of the immigration which pouring into this country and
which reported at its highest tide in the history of the port of
y permitted to enter and spread their evil influence widely
At Ellis Island where the immigrants examined impossible
result gross injury inflicted the health of this country
For the the immigrants from the unhealthy parts of
William Williams commissioner Of mmigraon l stationed at
sadly needed He said that impossible to for the flood
of immigrants during this and that Of necessity many aliens
The majority of the in the u s. immigration service are
fully alive to the perls of unrestricted immigration
The New York official quoted above DR. Geo Campbell has
state departments that have
straon generally regarded the efficient that the
capped There Ellis Island the corps of officials
numerical" W T n% 5 PP epme egee to an e @
the immigrants through Ellis Island the medical officers
inspect $50 persons every five minutes keep he
gangway chaotic Adequate inspection
for elimination of the unfit impossible in those conditions Twice
Island for the work be
there be the directs that shall be done
Williams and other immigration officials have found power
fighting them every in their efforts safeguard
of the United States 1t has been fight O
enough from the attempt to properly
inspect and the immigrants arrival Interests inside
outside of have fought strengthen exist
dealing with this subject Possibly light this hos
y be shown from the following quotation from DR. Campbell
t impossible to become in the least degree familiar with i'm
problems and realize the deliberate and effort
the migration America of
ndesrabes There connection constantly suggested
between this and the subsidies granted to steamship
foreign All encouraged migrate
detectives permitted who by any
device be prevented from so doing.
Perhaps the out of the bag is profitable for Southern
European countries rid of their mdesrabe profitable
the steamship lines the such
profitable for certain American interests constitute the
ing end for this dual partnership Mercnary and selfish motives
well together European their undesrab
and that they don't back Transportation
help the along We might remark in passing that
have the system operation country in deal
ing with the undesirabes of cities
Continued