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Show KEEP OUT THE FLOOD On a steamer arriving in New York yesterday were scores of Dutch farmers, with wivesand children, on their way to farms in i Iowa and South Dakota. Thousands, it is said, will follow as soon j as present passport and other restrictions to trans-Atlantic travel are modified. American agents in Europe report applications from 627,000 for-eigners for-eigners to sail for America. This is the beginning of a mighty stream of humanity which will flow to this country, if our immigration laws are not made almost fl exclusive. . The Dutch are a desirable people. They are industrious, law- abiding and frugal. They make good citizens, but the doors cannot bo thrown wide open to them, without allowing a great horde of a lower class to come within our boundaries. We are establishing schools in Americauzation, and of late have discovered that a big percentage of our foreign-born population is not being assimilated. This has been looked on as a menace and fl during the crisis in Europe was regarded as a weakness of serious 1 proportions. Until we clear up this surplus of undigested material, a further influx from abroad should be discouraged. Certain big employers favor immigration as offering a solution of the labor problem. Hl , In other words, they desire a foreign invasion as promising a lowering of wages. Even the profiteers have been heard to advocate foreign labor as a means of bringing a lower scale of compensation for the American worker. From such a source it is the compounding B of a crime. |