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Show 00 DEBATE PROCEEDS ON IMMIGRATION. With deep interest, the entire coun- ( try is watching the contest on in con gress over immigration In the debate In the lower house on Thursday, the head of the immigration committee, said cause for alarm exists when 16. 000 foreigners pass through one port alone within a week. Hundreds of thousands of people in the old covin Itries are seeking to cross the ocean and re coming as fast as ships will biin them With America In need oi iwrf million homes, the question is asked : How are we to house the coming hordes? With one million men and women jout of work, where is employment to be found for the millions who seek ad-j ad-j miss ion" It would be a crime against our own people, in this period of deflation arid 1 unemployment, to allow strangers to linsade this country at the rate they jare now pouring through the custom houses. On one uv.y over duvu ismuvu. This would total 1,800,000 in a year j Our senators and representatives! should prevent the making of this county a dumping ground. |