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Professor Carver stated that there is considerable danger of a great flood of emigration to this country due to the prevailing high wages here and the low wages abroad. "Of course we have our literacy restrictions," he commented, "but unless some other measures are taken American immigration will pass all bounds, and I think it very probable that such steps will be taken to prevent a flood of foreigners coming to this country...
...reason why the vote will be worth watching is that the promoters have taken pains to secure the approval of Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock to the form of the question. Originally it was proposed that each voter should be asked to mark his preference among four propositions, covering straight ratification and rejection, ratification with the Senate majority reservations, and ratification by means of compromise. But Senator Lodge felt that his position could be fairly provided for only...
...brings the list of propositions up to six. If, against them, any considerable proportion of the 35,000 or 40,000 faculty persons and the 200,000 undergraduates, in American college and universities, record themselves sincerely, the result will doubtless surpass in interest and importance any straw vote ever taken before. For the colleges and universities offer unusual facilities for organizing the voting, just as they provide a body of voters whose opinion will be peculiarly worth noting, especially as the faculty vote and the student vote will be tabulated separately. And the number and diffusion of the institutions participating...