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Show MAY SOLVE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM Perhaps the solution of the immigration ' problein. one of the most vexing which the United States has had to deal with, is to be found, not in legislation here, but in changing conditions in the Old V'orld. Political wrongs, customs of government handed down al-uost al-uost from the dark ages, persecution and the absolute rule of the ariftocracy have been the main factors which have caused the unprecedented unpre-cedented wave of immigration to this country. It is a world-old, " movement; the founders of the United States came to America in the - first place to secure political and religious freedom, just as the hordes . from Europe are now coming here. Chicago dispatches of Saturday announced that more than 20,000 Finns in the Middle Western States w.ould return to Finland as soon : n5 the country was given its freedom. According to the latest news from St. Petersburg, the Czar has now signed the ukase giving this down-trodden little nation the rights for which it has fougnt in vain, jind the effect will undoubtedly be not only to check the immigration from that country tothis, but actually to recall thousands of Fin-landers Fin-landers now in America. f j ' , Political liberty in Russia and a cessation of the Jewish perse-t perse-t utions will tend toward keeping the Czar's subjects at home, and many now in this country will return to their native land when they are assured their rights. Changing conditions of government and re- forms -in Italy acd Austria will keeptbe people of those nations at home and will relieve the United States of an overflow which has become a burden and a real menace. It is to be hopedihat political liberty will soon be given the subjects of all nations, and that the immigration problem which confronts this country can be solved in that way. " |