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Show CALIFORNIA DOES NOT WANT PAUPERS It has been proposed to transport 100.000 Belgians to California's farm lands Objection Is raised by the Sacramento Bee, which says "The Federal Immigration law forbids for-bids entrance to this country to paupers pau-pers and persons iikely to become a public charge; and further forbids the entrance of any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is af flrmathely and satisfactorily shown that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, associa Hon, society, municipality or forelpn government either directly or indirectly indi-rectly "Under the plan outlined it is suc;-gested suc;-gested Utat certain agencies, through a London office, spread the news among the Belgians that California offers them a home. "Section 6 of the United States Immigration Im-migration law provides that it shall be unlawful to assist or encourage the Importation or migration of any alien by promise of employment through ad vortisements printed and published In any foreign country. 'Exception is made in this sectiou of the law to n state through its legislative or other duly-authorized body doing such advertising. "Under such a condition, however, the sfatf.; would becomo at least morally moral-ly responsible for the support of these people until thev became self-support lng either by prodding them with auxiliary employment while they wcro waiting for their crops, or In some other manner." ThiB is the first note of objection from California to any form of Immigration. Im-migration. That state ba6 been the dumping ground of the over-crowded countries of southern and eastern Europe Eu-rope during the past ten years, and prior thereto, thousands of Portuguese, Portu-guese, Italians, Chinese, Japanese and others of the poorer classes of our foreign Influx had poured into the coast country. California's ono ambition in the past has been to get population, re gardless of whether the increase brought with it the impoverished con ditions of the most humble peasantry of Europe. Even Chinese and Jap anese immigration was welcomed in the earlier days, until the people dis covered that California could not keep open house to the people in this lower scale of living without endangering the very existence of Its Americanism. |