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...YORK, May 6.- The Boston Athletic Association athletes, who won so many victories at the Olympic games, Burke, Clarke, Hoyt, Curtis, Blake and Manager Graham arrived today on the steamship Lahn. J. B. Connelly will not return until next week...
...present laws restricting immigration are stringent enough, since-(a) they serve directly to keep out (1) criminals; (2) diseased persons; (3) persons unable to support themselves; (4) contract laborers, (Schloss, (71-78).- (b) they indirectly compel great care on the part of steamship companies in selectiong emigrants (Schloss...
...high tax would stop undesirable immigration: And. Rev. XIV. 260. (Mar. '88): - (a) It would make impossible the 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...
...Should Congress subsidize steamship lines...
...State ownership is constitutional; Constitution, Art. 1, & 8; Hamilton's Works IV, 109-111; - (a) It is the natural right of a State to protect itself. - (b) Precedents prove this, e.g., Subsidizing of Railways, canal and steamship lines, Interstate Commerce, post office, Prison manufactures...