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Show In offering an asylum to tho op-presssed op-presssed of every nation America has made itself a sort of international hospital hos-pital and reformatory to which the physically and morally infirm of Europe flock for healing and refuge. This country Is under no legal or moral obligation ob-ligation to receive such people. The fathors of tho republic did not intond that the United States should be made a dumping ground for the populous foreign centers which breed criminals and paupers. The mendicants of the old world havo no claim upon the gen-M0!Uy gen-M0!Uy ut-AmrUH, iaA the foreign , law-breakers and incendiaries who j have forfeited the rights of citizenship 1 under their native governments should I not expect to find protection here. ' j |