. The National Civic Federation review . sent Senate billis not something new of itself, al-though some of its provisions arenew, but is an act calculated to carry out just what theoriginal immigration act of 1882 was passed to accom-plish. The present law does not accomplish it. Therehave been loop-holes. The act of 1891 stopped act of 1893 slopped others. The act of 1903 wasstill better, but if the Senate bill now pending were tobe passed, it would do nothing more than what wasoriginally proposed in the act of 1882, as shown by thedebates in Congress. We already have had one elabor-
. The National Civic Federation review . sent Senate billis not something new of itself, al-though some of its provisions arenew, but is an act calculated to carry out just what theoriginal immigration act of 1882 was passed to accom-plish. The present law does not accomplish it. Therehave been loop-holes. The act of 1891 stopped act of 1893 slopped others. The act of 1903 wasstill better, but if the Senate bill now pending were tobe passed, it would do nothing more than what wasoriginally proposed in the act of 1882, as shown by thedebates in Congress. We already have had one elabor-ate investigation into this subject—that of the UnitedStates Industrial Commission—who through its expertshave made careful investigations up to the time of pub-lication of tlifir report. We need further data, butto my mind there is no reason for delay in passingwhat has been characterizd ns the very mild and mod-erate measure of these bills. We can at least do we can study further and sec whether anythingmore is desirable. OFFICERS OF THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT OFTHE NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION. this: Are we getting any benefit, or are we gettingany harm from immigration? Not do 16,000 diseasedpeople come to our shores in thirty-six years, because,of course, if you have immigration, you will have dis-eased immigrants. The specious claim that fifty percent of the immigrants that come in here are assisteddoes not impress me a bit; because four-fifths of thewhole population is assisted since we have about onemale wage-earner to every family of five. There isnothing startling about any statement of that sort whenyou come to analyze it. If this statement is intendedto convey the impression that fifty per cent of the pres-ent immigrants are paupers and are assisted to comeover by other persons than their relatives,—it is a basecalumny. The question is, What has anybody now topresent in the way of facts bearing on the benefit orthe disadvantage to the country of immigra
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