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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