Word: canada
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Utah, 2 1 2 2 0 7 Vermont, 5 3 5 7 4 24 W. Virginia, 2 2 0 2 1 7 Virginia, 2 1 5 0 1 9 Washington, 4 0 2 3 2 11 Wisconsin, 7 6 3 8 1 25 Canada, 5 8 18 5 9 45 England, 3 0 0 0 2 5 Hawaii, 10 0 0 2 0 12 Japan, 2 0 1 0 1 4 Spain, 1 0 0 0 0 1 Norway, 1 0 0 0 0 1 Armenia, 1 0 0 0 0 1 Scotland, 0 1 0 0 0 1 Cuba...
...engaged in by club members. Provisional arrangement has been made for lectures by the following well-known scholars of the Catholic Church: Rev. James Talbot Smith of New York, November 15; Rev. William T. McGuirl of Brooklyn, N. Y., January 10, 1900; Rev. Francis Ryan of Toronto, Canada, February 21, 1900; Rev. William Henry of St. Charles' Seminary, Overbrook, Pa., April 4, 1900. The governing board is negotiating with other prominent speakers, and hopes to be able to announce other lectures as soon as dates can be definitely arranged...
...opened the rebuttal for the affirmative as follows: The gentleman on the negative has said that our law provides that all immigrants who become paupers within a year must be returned at the expense of the steamship lines which brought them. Yet over 9000 paupers come by rail from Canada every year and are not returned. He also said that steamship lines are required to post in all cities of Europe our restrictions on immigration. Yet by their own admission a very large number are turned back every year, showing conclusively that foreigners do not read our regulations before coming...
...exclude those whom they aim to exclude, and because they contain no provision for the exclusion of certain other undesirable immigrants. In the laws as they stand there is practically nothing to prevent idiots, insane persons, paupers and criminals from coming to this country by way of Canada. But even if these could be excluded, there are reasons why further restrictions should be imposed. In the first place, while the supply of public lands to accommodate the new arrivals has decreased, the number of immigrants has vastly increased since 1820. The cheapening of transportation has made it possible for almost...
Before returning to France M. Doumic will deliver several lectures in this country and in Canada. In addition to the lectures at Columbia and Brooklyn he will deliver three lectures on contemporary French critics, on March 21, 22 and 23 before the Peabody Institute at Baltimore. These are to be on "Brunetiere," "Anatole France," and "Jules Lemaitre," respectively. Next he will lecture at the Washington Catholic University of America, and after that before the Catholic Universities of Quebec, Ottawa, and Montreal. On April 23 M. Doumic will said for France...