Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner-General of Immigration at Washington, D. C., delivered an interesting address on "Immigration" in the Union last night...
Only within the last 30 years, said Mr. Sargent, have we come to realize that we are a nation of immigrants, for there are very few of us whose ancestors did not come from a foreign country. Until recently the greater part of our immigrants have been the hard-working, law-abiding people of Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, who have become assimilated with us as an important part of our nation. Lately, however, large numbers of Italians, Hungarians, and Russian Jews have become to this country; but we need not be alarmed, provided they are put to work...
...Sargent does not believe in the illiteracy test for immigrants because it excludes some of the very best of them and admits anarchists and men who teach doctrines which cause distress to the country. He advocates a system of most rigid examinations and restrictions to prevent criminals, anarchists, agitators and people affected with disease iron entering the country. The inspection and examination, however, should be made, not in this country, but at the ports of embarkation...
...Sargent was formerly president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and a member of the arbitration board appointed by the Civic Federation in 1902. That same year he took an active part in aiding President Roosevelt to secure arbitration in the coal strike...
...Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner-General of Immigration at Washington, D. C., will deliver an address on some subject relating to the problems of immigration, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...