Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the American Association, Issue 44Leypoldt & Holt, 1906 - Social sciences |
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Page 89 - ... or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living...
Page 34 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 71 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 35 - February 26, 1885, but this section shall not be held to exclude persons living in the United States from sending for a relative or friend who is not of the excluded classes under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe : Provided, that $92 89?
Page 32 - ... able to perform only the cheapest kind of manual labor, desirous of locating almost exclusively in the cities, by their competition tending to reduce the standard of living of the American wageworker, and unfitted mentally or morally for good citizenship. It would be quite impossible to state what proportion of present immigration is undesirable or to describe it accurately; but I believe that at least...
Page 84 - I believe that at least 200,000 (and probably more) aliens came here who, although they may be able to earn a living, yet are not wanted, will be of no benefit to the country, and will, on the contrary, be a detriment, because their presence will tend to lower our standards ; and if these 200,000 persons could have been induced to stay at home, nobody, not even those clamoring for more labor, would have missed them. Their coming has been of benefit chiefly, if not only, to the transportation companies...
Page 114 - The compensation of an attorney or counsellor for his services, is governed by agreement, express or implied, which is not restrained by law.
Page 29 - The principal classes now excluded, besides contract laborers, are the following: Idiots; insane persons; epileptics; paupers; persons likely to become public charges; persons with loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases; convicted criminals; anarchists; polygamists. A mere reading of this list should suffice to sho'w that our laws could not be less exacting without exposing the country to positive danger. Their strict execution makes it possible to keep out what may be termed the riffraff, or...
Page 112 - King for ever and ever, and the heathen are perished out of the land. 19 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor ; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto : 20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.