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Best general references: R. M. Smith, Emigration and Immigration; Forum XI. 635 (Aug. '91), XIV. 110, (Sept. '92): And. Rev. (Mar. '88). (Aug. '88); Yale Rev. I. 130, (Aug. '92): Cong. Rec. '89-90, pp. 3326, Ford Com. Report on the Importation of Contract Laborers. ('88) House Misc...
...Immigration should be further restricted: - (a) On social grounds: - The proportion of paupers, diseased and criminal, is great. Messages and Documents, ('80-91) pp. 85: - (b) On economic grounds: - (1) No longer needed to develop the country. Pop. Sci. Mo., XLI. 762. Oct. '92 - (2) They lower wages and the standard of living; Forum XIV. 113. (Sept. '92): - (3) Unskilled occupations already overcrowded. Smith, 117. - (c) On political grounds. - (1) The Immigrants do not understand our institutions. Bryce Am. Com. I. 634. - (2) They become tools of Machine politicians; Smith. 13. - (3) They form communities by themselves, Bryce...
...sending of; - (1) paupers, - (2) convicts, (3) contract laborers, - (4) shiftless and ignorant persons whom agents of steamship companies induce to come: Yale Rev. (Aug. '92). - (b) The Italians and Slavs can barely raise the passage money; they could not raise the tax: Ford Com. Rep. pt. 2, pp. 112, - (c) Tax would not keep out the desirable immigrants such as, - (1) Germany, - (2) Sweds, - (3) Irish, for they bring enough money to pay the tax; Schmoller's Jahrbucher...
Best general references: Ap, Am, Cyc, vi. 572; North Am. Review, vol. 154, pp. 424 - 432 (April '92); Forum, xiii, 360 - 370 (May '92); Lalor's Cyclopaedia, ii. 85 - 94; Schmoller, Jahrbucher fur Gezetzgebung, ix. 31 - 74; Stat. at Large, xxvi...
...March 1890)-(1) Has been effectively abolished: Forum XII. 368: Utah Commission, 1892, Minority Rep't.-(2) Can best be prevented by Const. Amendment: Utah Commission, Rep't. 1889: (p. 769 in Rept. of Sec. Int., 1899').-(b) Mormons are industrious and law abiding: Bancroft's Hist. Utah, pp. 394 and 687.-(c) Mormons are decreasing in strength: Rept. Gov., 1890; Forum...