. The National Civic Federation review . 7,000 agents, or any other number. I speakfor the steamship line that has been charged with scour-ing Europe to bring the poverty stricken hordes overhere. That is absolutely untrue. It is not allowed bylaw, and I wish to say the steamship companies andtheir agents are lawabiding citizens. We abide by thelaw here and abroad. Here is the Commissioner ofImmigration, he can say what we do to conform to theAmerican law. One of the speakers referred to $10 immigrants. Thesteamship lines had a war last year and rates went downto a very low basis, and the news
. The National Civic Federation review . 7,000 agents, or any other number. I speakfor the steamship line that has been charged with scour-ing Europe to bring the poverty stricken hordes overhere. That is absolutely untrue. It is not allowed bylaw, and I wish to say the steamship companies andtheir agents are lawabiding citizens. We abide by thelaw here and abroad. Here is the Commissioner ofImmigration, he can say what we do to conform to theAmerican law. One of the speakers referred to $10 immigrants. Thesteamship lines had a war last year and rates went downto a very low basis, and the newspapers announced thatin consequence of these low rates hordes, thousands,hundreds of thousands would come over here. Statisticshave shown that last year during the lower rates fewerarrived than the year before, and fewer than this yearwhen the rates are high. That only shows that thepassage money has absolutely no influence on immi-gration at all. (Applause.) There is another point 1wish to make: It is again the same old story, if times. JAMES P. ARCHIBALD,Secretary New York Civic Federation. are better here the immigrants are bound to come, andwho comes? It is the energetic man who has thecourage to break away from the ties that bind him,it is the intelligent man who can appreciate that hiscondition will be better here than on the other side andwho can cut loose from his ties and come across to theunknown country, and it is the man with savings whocan afford to go—that is the man who comes, and thepoor, the ignorant, the scum, the people who are notenergetic, they stay behind. They do not come toAmerica. So I wish to contradict again the statementthat it is the poor, the uneducated, the criminal hordethat come over here. We have laws that restrain thecriminal from coming to this country. Here is theCommissioner of Immigration; it is his business to ex-clude every one that is undesirable. The steamship linesdo not bring the undesirable here, and if any shouldslip in there is
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