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r - i MR. PATTEN ON IMMIGRATION. | He Favors Restriction?W003 Not I See Why the South Sohuld he L so Eager for Immigrants. If v Columbia, Nov. 23.? " Among; the K|. senators who have already, and withM]|^out solicitation, raised their voices congress to protest against inmiiP' gration abuses, and who have vvorkhard in and out 011 commit tee, P|reparing bills, and have labored h art! for their consideration before k|'^ that body, and who have been suecessful in their struggle on the floor HL of the senate to perfect and pass the bill which became a law last Jo*1ehruary, is your junior senator, A. K C. Latimer," said Mr. J. N. Patten, Secretary of the Immigration Restrict ion League to a corresopndent. K "One of the most practical and common sense devices in the bill for B;fe' keeping out objectionable aliens and repl fo> compelling foreign steamship Bp companies to respect our law, and AVhi<*h will prevent those selfish in wK terests iVom using this country as a Jp: dumping ground, is the extension of the fines which was suggested and introduced by Senator Latimer. My "In the debate, Senator Latimer R showed that foreign governments K would not permit our officials to inV spec! and reject undesirable immi grants on their soil, and he argued J till a t as the United States could not r turn brock those who would be ex| eluded on the other side, that the I only way to nvake tlie steamship companies respect our laws and put an end to the hardships of deportation, was to fine the steamship companv ies for bi*inging any alien here who j?8? was excluded, provided the ground for his exclusion could have been deBV tected at the time of foreign embarkation by 1 medical or other competent examination. Such a pro^B vision, the senator aj'gued, would make it to the pecuniary interest of 9 the company to refuse to sell pasm sage to deficients and dependents ? who would clearly be excluded when V they reached this country. Although the senator's :unendjjfflftmout was not adopted in full, the ^^Hiew law incorporates a. part, of it. and j^^Hforbids the steamship companies to EDKacccpt any indemnity of deposit to SB Cover fines or expenses of deportation, and imposes upon the eompajV nies a fine of one hundred dollars V for bringing to this country any ?, idiot, imbecile, insane person, or h\ any person having a loathsome, danRV crous, of contagious disease, providfji, ed the condition of the immigrant could have been detected at the time | of foreign emibarkation. "It is very ditTicult to understand, as Senator Latimer pointed out on ; the floor ?f the senate, why this ^principle of a fine, should not be ex|H tended to all the excluded classes of aV immigrants brought- here contrary to [B other provisions of the bill. Such a Wr provision as he argued would make H! the foreign steamship companies li?e up to our I rows and save many |w an alien a forlorn and disappointing Ms voyage across the ocean. Last year, B|; for instance, about 12,000 poor unHgf fortunate.* were nnveigled by the ?-: steanisliip companies, merely for the V sake of the passage money. into Ja making the trip, only to be denied PBcntrnnce and deported. jM "Among the other senate bill proW visions which your junior senator was instrumental in securing, was V the illiteracy, or, as it is called by D its enemies, the educational test, H which would exclude merely alien 2ft adults unable to read or write in any language. Unfortunately, the H house had a bill of its own, which W also contained the illiteracy test, 1m and which, when the senate bill came yBknp, was substituted and the wholo aR matter thrown into conference. In jgJE the rush of business in the closing W days of the session, and owing to the hard fight, which was put tip by '11 other ^ elfish interests, a bill was til "pon by the conference which i'lf doubled the head tax, increased the |9 excluded classes, extended I ho fine upon steamship companies, limited |j V the air space, and established a eomR I mission for the purpose, of invest iH I gr'iirv Hie rpr^tion and reporting Qm additional legislation, but. dropped the illiteracy test. Tf the test had I jbeen a law last year, it would have Mmexr'u^d. (>vpr 300,000 aliens from ''BB>outbeast Kuropo and western Asia. was pointed out in debate, it. is I ^difficult to see why this country l(fshould spend millions of dollars up|[Aon its public schools, in fighting igI IBnorance and illiteracy, and rofpiirK Miner of its own "s a qualification for ajBeili.i;.:ship a rudimentary education. Awhile leaving its doors wide open the absolutely ignorant and illilyiterale of other races. Of course no r 'L>ne maintains that the teat would Limwclude the educated criminal. That Beseems to bo tho- chiof argument hL * against it. Such an undesirable is supposed to be kept out by exieting legislation, which debars criminals, aiul which oug'ht to be further strengthened by requiring every alien to have a passport and certificate of g-ood character from his own local ollicials. The literacy test, however, would keep out a large percentage of very objectionable aliens, because it is the ignorant and i illiterate who are such a fertile llehl lef the irresponsible agitator; who are destitute of resources and a knowledge of support; who have low standards of living and little ambition to seek better; who are averse to country life and crowd into the city slums, increasing the crime, disease, misery and poverty there. Certainly the test would do much to improve the present inferior quality oP our immigration and would greatly enhaiiVe the chances of the south securing the kind of immigrants she would welcome. Northwest Europe is a land of universal education, wjhile public schools are unknown in southeastern Europe. If the steamship companies cannot bring the more profitable but less desirable illiterate alien races from the Mediterahean countries, they will till their steerage with the less profitable, more desirable, literate, kindred peoples of northwest Europe. "In a short time you could probably settle every cultivatable acre of land in the south, and in the i course of a few years quadruple the present, cotton crop and cut the price in two. In an even shorter time youh* forests could be turned into lumber and your minerals mined. Hut what i.-' the use of all this mad, hot haste to develop every one of your resources? You are now, after many years of hard and self-sacrificing effort, a happy, contented and prosperous people. Why fly from the present labor ills, whatever they are made out to be by the selfish interests, to ills you know not of? Why not leave something for your own posterity and not jeopardize your institutions, ideals, and very civilization itself, by bringing in other alien races which arc now hcginuing to cause in the northwest the very economic, social and racial evils which arc known on the Pacific j slope as the "Yellow Peril' and in the south as the ''Negro Problem?' ''Our present laws, with the. exception of Chinese and Japanese exelusion, are mere police regulations, and debar merely the admittedly deficient and dependent classes. What is needed is legislation that will test the caliber, the character and the capacities of immigrants. Why should we admit the penniless alien who is forced by his ignorance and poverty to go to work at once in the sweat s?hops and slums. Why admit. the unintelligent, illiterate person who is sure to be ignorant of a trade, lacking in resources and ability, likely to become a public charge and sure to become a. tool in the hands, of the c^Tupt boss or anarchistic agitator?why admit the illiterate adult when we are spending millions on education and make literacy a condition of our franchise and citizenship? "'With regard to legislation, in my opinion the. head lax ought to be further increased to ten or twenty-live dollars; the possession of property or money, say fifty dollars, as in the case of England, ought to be required; all assisted immigration ought to be forbidden except where the passage is paid by the alien's nearest relatives; a passport of cer-? tificato of character ought to be required; and by all means all illiterate adult aliens ought to be oxclud- | ed. Such provisions would go far toward relieving the northeast of its intolerable immigration evils, and would certainly bring ns a far belter class of immigrants than tho bulk of the new immigration which has just begun lo come in large numbers from southeastern Europe and western Asia. There is no reason lo fear that the south and west would suffer, in the least by such laws. As n. matter of fact, they would gain, j for it is the coming and competition | of these new classes of immigrants, with their low standards of living, which has caused the rapid decline in the more desirable immigration from northwestern Europe. Of one thing you can be sure, if the steamship companies cannot bring tire more profitable, less desirable classes, they will fill their steerage with 'he less profitable and more desirable." "T thought you were married, and, vet you're sewing on your own buttons." "I am married, but T keep my independence, let- mo tell you."?Mcggendorfer Blatter. . v / (CONDENSED) ? 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