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Show OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS Just now we are hearing something some-thing from dfferent parts of the country about the modifcatlon ' of our immigration laws. Doubtless, the movement for this modification will gather force as Congress con-. venes. The American people will view with concern any general tam- pering with the immigration laws. Under the present system the country coun-try has prospered. Wages are high and this has increased the buying power of the American people. In addition, we are not now getting immigration im-migration any faster than it can be absorbed, as was the case a few years ago. If the American people remain awake to the issue the immigration laws will not be modified in any way which will tend to let down the bars to cheap alien labor. The laboring men of America realize this and as the Chicago Tribune puts it, "The law was designed primarily to preserve pres-erve the American standard of living. liv-ing. The standard cannot be preserved preserv-ed if hundreds of thousands of workmen, work-men, accustomed to poverty, are allowed al-lowed to come here each year, glad to accept wages which no American would consider. Labor cannot iisten to arguments against the national origin or-igin laws without inviting further attacks upon a policy which has made the American workingman the most prosperous in the world." If the bars were let down America Ameri-ca would be flooded with immigrants immi-grants from all parts of the world. This would be a bad thing for the country and for the imigrants who would soon find that the land of promise was not so promising after all, inundated as it would by by deluge del-uge of alien competition. |