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...still we flock abroad. The month of May this year has soon all American passport records broken with some 25,000 issued. The total number for the year to date is about 77,000. That means 77,000 persons have started for Europe to spend an average of about $1000 each. So $77,000,000 of American money is on its way into European pockets already, and more than likely the amount will be doubled in the course of the season...
...common welfare on the basis of mutual understanding, conciliation, and cooperation". For the accomplishment of this, the speaker pointed out, the European countries must sink nationalism in internationalism, must demobilize not only their armies but also their jealousies and hatreds, "and tear down all trade restrictions, tariff walls, and passport regulations...
...common welfare on the basis of mutual understanding, conciliation, and cooperation". For the accomplishment of this, the speaker pointed out, the European countries must sink nationalism in internationalism, must demobilize not only their armies but also their jealousies and hatreds, "and tear down all trade restrictions, tariff walls, and passport regulations...
...American passport regulations became effective last July, when the fee for the issue of these documents was raised from two to ten dollars. Foreign nations, which need the money much more than we do, are naturally tempted to reciprocate. Italy, for example, charges Belgian subjects two dollars, British subjects two dollars and a half, but American citizens ten dollars,--the respective amounts imposed on each of these people by their own government. If an American goes to Italy through France and Belgium, he must now pay forty dollars in passport fees...
Congress should cheek all immigration without wasting much time, and this would be the wisest thing to do, inasmuch as the present emergency passport legislation under which immigration is now controlled expires on March 4. The solution of such an important question as the admission of foreigners demands time for investigation and discussion; no doubt the present administration would gladly pass on to President-elect Harding the responsibility of determining our future policy in the matter. If Congress, with the immigration problems off its hands, could then accomplish something to relieve the taxpayers of the country, it will, at least...