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MR. PATTEN ON IMIIGRATION.a
He Favors Restriction-Woes Not l
See Why the South Sohuld be a:
so Eager for Immigrants. st
Ja.l
Columbia, Nov. 23.-"Among the e<
senators who have already, and with- It
out solicitation, raised their voices h
in congress to protest against immi- P,
gration abuses, and who have work- a]
ed hard in and out on committee, i
preparing bills, and have labored 1i
hard for their consideration before a]
that body, and who have been sue- k
eessful in their struggle on the floor l
of the senate to perfect and pass a
the bill which became a law last a,
February. is your junior senator. A. tc
C. Latimer," said Mr. J. N. Patten, el
Secretary of the Immigration Re- ti
striction League to a corresopndent. m
"One of the most practical and is
common sense devices in the bill for w
keeping out objectionable aliens and o.
fo:o compelling foreign steamship n
companies to respect our law, and
which will prevent those selfish in- ei
- terests from using this country as a u;
dumping ground, is the extension of tl
the fines which was suggested and bi
itrodueed by Sena,tor Latimer. d<
"In the debate, Senator Latimer tt
showed that foreign governments w
would not permit our officials to in- p:
zpect and reject undesirable immi- k
grants on their soil, and he argued rc
that as the United States could not
turn baek those who would be ex- b;
"chided on the other side, that the of
only way to make the steamship com- c
panies respect our laws and put an p,
end to'the hardships of deportation, ir
was to fine the steamship compan- y
ies for bringing any alien here who t
was excluded, provided the ground B
for his exclusion could have been de- hi
tected at the time of foreign em
barkation by ? medical or other o
competent examination. Such a pro- ir
vision, the senator gued, would p
make it to the pecuniary interest of tY
the company to refuse to sell pas- as
sage to deficients and depend?nts tE
who would clearly be excTuded when V
they reached this country. o
Although the senator's amend- Y
ent was not adopted in full, the ci
ew law incorporates a part of it, and 01
orbids the steamship -companies to gi
accept any ind-emnity of deposit to v,
eover fines or expenses of deporta- wx
tion, and imposes upon the compa- sl
nies a fine .cf one hundred dollars tI
for bringing ,to this country , any
idiot, imibeeile, insane person, or ei
any person having a loathsome, dan- cl
erous, of contagious disease, provid- a1
ed the condition of the immigrant fi
e euld have been detected at the time is
of foreign emibarkation. *ti
It is very difficult to understand, Ce
as Senator Latimer pointed out on s
the floor of the senate, why this "W
principle of a fine should not be ex- P
tended to all the excluded classes of s'
immigrants brought here contrary to ~
other provisions of the'bill. Such -a 3C(
provision as he argued would make ti
the foreign steamship companies it
live up to our laws and save many a
an alien a forlorn and disappointing h
voyage across the ocean. Last year, ce
for instance, about 12,000 poor un- hi
fortunates were unveigled by the mn
steamship companies, merely for the e
sake of the passage money, into a
making the trip, only to be denied
entrance and deported. m
"Among the other senate bill pro- b4
visions which your junior senator ty
was instrument.al in securing, was p'
the illiteracy, or, as it is called by mI
its -eaemies, t:he educational test, r
whichx would exclud*e merely alien 01
adults unable to read or write in th
any language. Unfortunately, the n
house had a hill of its own, which t.t
also co'ntained the. illiteracy test, q1
and which, when the senate bill came at
p, was substituted and the whole e(
matter thrown into conference. In to
the rush of business in the closing~ its
days of the ses.sion. and owing to V
the hard fight which was put up by ce
other fish interests, 'a bill was o
a~reed i;pon by the conference which .ie.
dovaled the head tax, inereased the bi
exeluded classes, extended the fine w
upe,u steamship companies, limited fe
the air space. and estalblished a corn
mission for the purpose of investi- a
p + n- the q.uption and reporting fc
additional legisla.tion, but dropped oi
the illiteracy test. If the test had *
heen a law last year. it would have 'V
~eluid over 300,000 aliens from 1o
outheant Europe and western Asia. f
s was pointed out in debate. it is U
dioicult to see why this country Sl
should spend millions of dollars up- r
on its public echools. in fighting ig- ~
noranen nrd illiteracy. and requir
ing of its own -s a qualification for a
e ...Thij a rudimentarv eTheation.
whi'e leaving its doors wide open
to the alwolutely irrnorant and illi
erate of other r-aces. Of course no ta
ne maintains that the test would
elude the educated criminal. That r
Ia;iSt it. ui an u1n1(lesiral)le is
TpptoSed to be kept out by exieting
gislation. whYch lebars criminals,
nd whicli o1t to be further
:rengthened by requiring every
ien to have a passport and certifi
ite of good character from his own
cal officials. The literacy test,
>wever. would keep out a large
ercentage of very objeetionable
iens, because it is the ignorant and
literate who are such a fertile field
the irresponsible agitator; who
e destitute of resources and a
nowledge of support; who h1av2
w standards of living and little
nbition to =eek better: who are
erse to country life and crowd in
the city slums, increasing the
-ime. disease. misery and poverty
Lere. Certainly the test would do
uch to improve the present infer
r quality of our immigration and
ould greatly en.haiee the chances
the south seeuring the kind of im
igrants she would wellcome. North
est Europe is a land of universal
lucation. w,hile public schools are
known in southeastern Europe. If
te steamship companies cannot ]
ring the more profitable but less
sirable illiterate alien races from
1e - Mediteranean countries, they
ill fill their steerage with the less
rofitable, more desirable, literate,
indred peoples of northwest Eu
>pe.
"In a short time you could pro
ibly settle every cultivatable acre
land in the south, and in the
)urse of a few years quadruple the
resent cotton crop and cut the price
two. In an even shorter time
our forests could be turned into
imber and your minerals mined.
ut what is the use of all this mad,
t haste to develop every one of
ur resources? You are now, after
any years of hard and self-sacrific
tg effort, a happy, contented and
rosperous people. Why fly from
te present labor ills, whatever they
re made out ,to be by the selfish in
?rests. to ills you know not 'of ?
Ehy not leave something for your
w-n posterity and not jeopardize
ur institutions. ideals. and very
vilization itself, by bringing in
:her alien races which are now be
nning to cause in tie northwest the
?rv economic. social and racial evils
hih are known on the Pacific
ope as the "Yellow Peril' and in
e south as the 'Niegro Problem?'
"Our present laws. with -the- ex
ytion of Ohinese and Japanese ex
usion, are ryere police regulations,
ad debar merely the admittedly de
cient and dependent elasses. What
needed is legislation tha.t will test
ie caliber, the character and the
ipaities of immigrants. Why
iould we admit the penniless alien
ho is forced by his ignorance and
verty to go to woa at once in the
veat shops and slums. Why ad
it the unintelligent, illiterate per
n who is sure. to be ignorant of a
'ade, lacking in resources and abil
y, likely to become a public charge
id sure to become a tool in the
mds, of the egrpt boss or anar
istic agitator-why admit the i1
erate* adult when we are spending
illions on- education and make lit
.aya dndit ion of our franchise
id citizenship?
"With regard to legislation, in
y opinion t'he head tax ought to
further increased to ten or twen
'-five dollars; the. possession of pro
rty or money, say fifty dollars, as
the cas~e of England, ought to be
quired; all assisted immigration
ight to be forbidden except where
e passage is pa'id by the alien's
~arest relatives; a passport of cera
ficate of character ought to be re
iired; and by all means all illiter
*e adult aliens ought to be exe,lud
. Such provisions would go far
vard relieving the nort-heast of
intolerable immigration evils, and
ould certainly bring us a far better
ass of jmmigrants than the bulk
the new immigration whieh has
st begun ~to come in large num
rs from southeastern Europe and
estern Asia. There is no reason to
ar that the south and west would
Iffer. in the least by such laws. As
matter of fact. they would gain,
r it is the coming and competition
these new classes of immigrants,
ith their low standards of living,
hieh has caused the ra.pid decline
the more desirable immigration
om northwestern Europe. Of one
in you can be are. if the steam
p companies cannot bring thire
ore profitable, less desirable clas
,ther will fill their steerage with
e led profitable and more desir
'I thought you were mnarried, and,
t you're sewing on your own bat
"I am married, but I keep my in
~pendence, let me tell you.' '--Meg
(CONDENSED)
STATEMENT
-OF
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF NEWBERRY, S. C.,
under call of State Bank Examiner at close of business
September 17, 1907.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts - - - - $406,831 16
Dverdrafts - - - - - - 5,653 08
Furntiure and fixtures - - - - 3,116 93
ash and sight exchange - - - - 42,172 36
$457,773 53
+ LIABILITIES.
capital Stock - - - - - - $ 50,000 00
Undivided profits (less expenses paid) - 49,484 84
Dividends (unpaid) - - - - - 1,030 00
cashier's checks - - - - - - 103 88
Due Banks - - - - - - 858 38
Bills payable - - - - - - 20,000 00
[ndividual deposits - - - - - 336,296 43
$457,773 53
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J. Y. McFALL. Cashier
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