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Show EXCLUDING IMMIGRATION. While other questions of importance to the nation nro being agitated, we think that the subject of restricting foreign emigration needs attention. All kinds and classes of peoplo aro daily flocking to tho shores of America Am-erica and it is nu Indlsputed (set, that n gieat per cont. of emigrants nro of an undesirublo class oi citizens. The I countries Irom which they came ate In many instances glad to get rid of them, nud as a rulo lurnlali them free transportation trans-portation across the Atlantic. During tho month of Mny over seventeen thousand thous-and emigrants landed at Csstlo Garden, and it is safe to say that of this numhei fully ono hall will be of no beuolit tootu country nnd n largo number will be n detriment to it. Criminals fleeing from justice In European countries seek safety in the United States nnd ns n consequence conse-quence follow their old avocations here, The law should exclude nil classes ol peoplo from nil countries who could not (urnlsh u pnssport from their own country and a cortilicate as to character from tho ofllclals of their country; anil ndinlulon Into any part of the United States should bo granted only upon satisfactory papers. |