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Show KEEPING OUT FOREIGNERS I So great has been the rush of immigrants immi-grants to the United States, that the congress had to pass restriction laws, allowing only a small percentage of the former flood which swept in upon 1 our shores to land. As a result, ltal ian, Greek, Russian and other foreign era watch their opportunity to knock at the doors of Ellis island for admis slon. Each half year there Is a clearing : of ihe records, and then the ports are; thrown open to receive the quotas lor H ihe next six months, at a rate not to' exceed 20 per cent in any one month. Last night great ships approached New York harbor, keeping outside the j ihree-mile limit, and this morning SH .1 I.- r..M . , .. rv, .U I Imey were uuuei iuii cicnui, mar. for quarantine in order to he the first io discharge their 7000 aliens on the shores of America When the full quota of any foreign countr is filled, all arrivals in excess are ordered deported at the expense of the steamship company which brought them. How great must be the disappointment disappoint-ment suffered by a family which has gathered sufficient funds to leave the old country, hoping to make a home in the land of opportunity, to find on landing at Ellis island that America has closed Its doors' There Bhoud be some method worked out by whlrh the foreigner would be denied a passport until America was ready to receive him Then the extreme ex-treme sacrifices which are made, accompanied ac-companied by heart breaking disap pointments, might be avoided |