Show unrestricted immigration a tue inter mountain takes the same view of as that hold by this paper and in commenting on the utterances of eliot of harvard and watchorn commissioner of immigration says the position taken by both that unrestricted immigration will continue to do in the future what it has done ia the past is easily made untenable A reservoir full of water ia full of potential energy and therefore valuable an overflowing reservoir damages the surrounding country the united states might accommodate and support the peoples of the world thit something beside bread and butter is essential if the day arrives when a majority of the citizens of this country are of such descent as to be unable to grasp the moral and economical ideals and convictions which made this nation great and powerful ahr fall of he united states will bein the peril ia immigration lies not so much in oversupply over supply of labor as in the consequent under proportion of americanism an alarming proportion of the immigrants of the past decades have not become self support ing they have come too rapidly to be assimilated the have come more rapidly than economic development warrants thousands moreover who might have found work in the west and south have remained haupers paupers in the cities of the east their disposition hag been as uneconomic as their reception cep tion resources undeveloped pro duce nothing the best proof that immigration should have been restricted stricter ed is that the immigrants have not prospered ia the past decade as they did before despite the vast tracts opened up and settled whether or not immigration tends to lower wage scales is only one phase of the important question the important phases of immigration are the character of the immigrants and the chances to give them work that they may become self supporting sentiment in consideration of this question is as cruel to the immigrant as it is ruinous to the nation the united states at present enjoys unexampled prosperity and still immigration is an economic problem in times of commercial depression what will happen if the stream is not stopped |