Show immigration Immig I 1 mm ration mation whatever may be t true ru 0 of london it is probable that a large share of the poverty of our american cities is due to the in of helpless and degraded ded people from other countries london draws draw into its insatiate maw the vi vior vigor or of thi the country and impoverishes it Vew new tori york and boston are themselves largely impoverished ed by the immigration of multi audes tudes whose standard of comfort is fai below that of our own people and jhc help ta drag the natives down to theia own level the american policy deemi to bo be to prevent the pauper labor ol of foreign countries from competing on it its own ground with Attle american labor but to open epen tho the door as widely as possible for this I 1 pauper labor to come to america and depress our own labor its desperate competition rey rev washington gladden in century |