Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-26 | Page 3 | Business Club Favors Limiting Immigrants

Business Club Favors Limiting Imniigrants The third meeting of the Progressive Business club of ngden will be held I at the Weber club next Tuesday, it I was announced today by President ! H. P. Hci ringlon. Mathonihah Thorn-ay. Thorn-ay. former federal prohibition agent, ! who is chairman of the Inter-city rela? I tions committee of the Salt Pake Progressive Pro-gressive Business club, will be the I principal speaker. "America" will be sung as the open-Ing open-Ing feature of the meeting under the j leadership of Angus Wright and II. I,. Lund. The club went on record last week on the Immigration question. Keso-lutions Keso-lutions were adopted, copies of which were ordered sent to Senators Smoot and King and Congressmen Welling 'and Mayo, petitioning that the present laws be so amended as to make impossible impos-sible the examination of immigrants i at the point of embarkation by ' American officials and providing for limitation of number. j The resolutions further petition for an equitable distribution of all desirable desir-able emigrants admitted, tip reby eliminating the present dangerous system sys-tem of colonization in the large centers cen-ters Which tends lo slacken the process pro-cess of assimilation and makes Americanization Ameri-canization work exceedingly difficult.