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When we try to estimate and fathom life, we at once see some prominent qualities which all life possesses. The first is the necessity for universal labor. To every human being is allotted a certain amount of work. If one person fails to perform his share, it falls to the portion of some other man to do, in addition to his own. There are no lands or peoples free from this inexorable condition of toil...
...very large immigration is no longer necessary and desirable.- (a) Public lands are being rapidly taken up: Yale Review, I, 129, 130 (Aug. 1892).- (b) Unskilled labor no longer so requisite.- (1) Country is fairly well opened up: Smith, Emigration and Immigration, 119.- (2) Machinery supplants hand labor in great part: Smith, Em. and Im., 119.- (c) Natural increase of population is sufficient: H. C. Lodge, Restriction of Immigration...
...Economic.- (1) Problem of the unemployed in dull times increased: Publications of the Immigration Restriction League, No. 4, SS 10, 11, and No. 8.- (2) Lowering of wages: Smith, Em. and Im. p. 140.- (3) Lowering the standard of living: Yale Review, I. 135 (Aug. 1892).- (4) Labor troubles increased: F. A. Walker in American Economic Association Papers, III, 170-172.- (c) Social.- (1) Excessive proportion of paupers are foreign born.- (2) Of insane and diseased persons.- (3) Of criminals: H. C. Lodge, The Census and Immigration, in Century, XLVI. 737-739 (Sept. 1893).- (4) Colonies in cities and country...
...continuation of immigration is desirable. Cong. Record, XVI, 1788-89 (Feb. 17, 1885); Forum, XIII, 360-70.- (a) Unskilled laborers on public and semi-public works, in heavy manufacturing works, etc., release intelligent American labor for higher pursuits; Forum, XIII, 363.- (b) Intelligent farmers for the development of our agricultural resources in the south and west; ibid.- (c) Domestic servants.- (d) The educated and thrifty constitute a large part of the immigrants: No. Am. Rev., vol. 134, pp. 346-67.- (e) Immigration will not injure American labor,- (1) Wages have steadily increased in the last twenty years: Atkinson, in Forum...
...lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed his ingnorance. In the houses of the poor in this district, Harvard students seek out in person the objects of their charity and labor to raise them to a higher life. It is safe to say that in no other college is there such effective organization of charitable and philanthropic work. "Harvard is not likely to bother about the idle fancies of human brotherhood or the dignity of man." Yet it is the Harvard...