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Show rheapcuiog Work and ia lowering the yandan ol liviug', etc' .' " Haa rrofessor Jeoka ever eoniiderrd whether we have any right to atop immigration of hooett men to tbia country? We Americana think that w hare the right to go anywhere we pleaae, to engage in any honorable employment Thich we can find, and we preaiime rrofcaaor Jenka haa that opinion. Did he ever atop to think that if a nmn waa in Germany Ger-many or England or France or Italy oreren Greece, ho baa that right aa much aa we have heret If he can come with a good record that be haa behaved himself all hia life, and that he wanta to make home among ua, have we any right to put him outf Motet of iin would be glad to aerj thin tide of immigration immi-gration turned to. South America or Mexico or Central Cen-tral America, but we have no right to urge it, because be-cause the air mil -the earth are free ant an honet man haa the inherent right to go- to any place on earth and try to make for liima If a living. If our government would make term -it h some South American republic, get a right to build railroad from the coast back into the country and purchase a large tract of land along the aido of the proposed robd, then vast horde of these immigrants might be diverted there, because the landa would be cheap and they eonld raise there what the whole world haa to buy; and until aomething of that kind cornea about and they determine to eoma to New York and have the meana to pay their way and bring. with them a good record, by what right doea Professor Jenka protest against their coming t We keep out the Chinese, we would like to keep out the Japanese) Japa-nese) but there ia reason for tha', which doei njt apply on the other aide. They do not eoma to be eitiaena, - they bring vices which are enough -to taint a race ; they are born slaves and come to work for other people, not themselves. Hence, we have a right to proteat against their admission; but it is not so from the other side, and, as we aaid above, the air ia free to all men and so ia the unoccupied earth, ' v' . , : : .;c; i:.::::rATic:i. 'if ('.! II wHiits the tide of im- ! ' ; it bus t1 e eCfi-t cf |