Of special interest:

From THE EVENING TELEGRAM Saturday May 11, 1901

The number of immigrants landing at New York this spring, especially Italians, is unprecedented. They are coming into this country by tens of thousands; Unless they are paupers or diseased, or it
 can be shown that they arrive under a
 contract to labor—a thing almost impossible to show - they must be admitted.
 Year after year, decade after decade, 
thoughtful and patriotic people have 
pleaded with Congress to enact more
s stringent immigration laws, so that we 
would not be overrun with these European cheap laborers, but in vain. There
 were people of the same nationalities here
 who had votes—too easily acquired. Even
 their interests required a check, to be put
 to this wholesale immigration. Every new 
arrival is a competitor, if not of a native 
American, of one of his own people al
ready here. As to Americans, they were 
long ago pretty well crowded out of the 
lower ranks of public employment.
 Scarcely one will be found doing manual
 labor in any of our larger cities. Not 
only so, but the great corporations and
 trusts recruit the ranks of workingmen annually by tens of thousands of these foreigners, hoping there by so to fill the 
labor market that labor cannot successfully organize to protect itself. 


Of course, everybody understands that
 many foreigners make good American citizens. We can scarcely admit too many 
of those who go out into our forests and 
upon our unused lands and make homes 
and farms; but this class is the minority 
of those, who land on our shores. Most of 
those coming from Italy, for instance, are 
laborers, looking for employment, and 
never expect to be anything else. They 
come because “times are prosperous" here 
now; but how long will they be so if we 
allow an unrestricted flood of these la
borers to wash up into and through all
 our cities?

In Justice, not only to native-born 
Americans, but to immigrants who have 
been admitted during past years, there 
should be higher, broader and surer gates
 on both sides of our continent against the 
influx of laborers who care nothing about
 American citizenship and generally use it
 when gained, to vote for the worst men 
nominated for office.

 

 

 

 

 

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