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Show Some women are afraid in the dark and others are more afraid of the? light. No matter how cloudy the weather. It Is ten times pleasanter outdoors-than outdoors-than in. If there is no other time, there la one when a man wants to look pleasant pleas-ant ; In a photograph. Often a man's "unrest" expresses itself it-self in improving his own condition. Others want a law to do It. DEMOCRATS WANT 6ATESJEFT0PEN JOHNSON IMMIGRATION BILL MEETS OPPOSITION BY MEMBERS MEM-BERS OF THE HOUSE Claim Made That United State Has Room For Many Who Are Desirious to Help Deve'op Country Washington. Twenty of the twenty-two Democratic members of the house from New York state joined Sunday in a statement that they are "unalterably opposed to the rigidly rig-idly restrictive" Johnson immigration immigra-tion bill. The measure, it wag contended, "is particularly objectionable because it discriminates against certain nationalities na-tionalities already going to make up a great part of our population, fans the flames of racial religious and national hatreds and brands forever elements already here as of an inferior in-ferior stock." "The foreign-born population of our country and those born here of foreign parents," the statement declared, de-clared, "comprise 33 1-3 per cent of the total population. Of these, at least 25 per cent are recent immigrants immi-grants and constitute the young men and women of today's laboring classes class-es so necessary to our industrial prosperity. "We are underhoused, undercon-structed undercon-structed and underdeveloped and are in sore need of those who are willing to do our work, but skilled and hard and laborious, but this bill would tend to keep out that class of immigrants immi-grants best suited for such occupations. occupa-tions. "It would not, moreover, bring into this country a better class or a more assimiable body of immigrants." The statement concluded with this paragraph : "Our great country is still big enough geographically, politically and socially to receive these persons knocking at our doors whether of brain or brawn, who answer our mental, men-tal, moral and physical requirements require-ments and can contribute to our science, our art, our literature, our commerce or our industry. Attached to the statement were the names of Representatives Carew, Kindred, Sullivan, Cullen, Mead, Griffin, Cleary, Quayle, O'Connor, Black, Bloom, Lindsay, Celler, Corning, Corn-ing, Dickstein, Boylan, O'Connor, Oliver, Prall and Weller. |