The Immigration Problem, Or, America First: A Brief Treatise Explaining how Hundreds of Thousands of Foreign Cheap Laborers are Annually Brought to the United States Under the Guise of Immigrants, and Urging the Need of More Stringent Laws to Check this Growing Evil and Protect American Labor

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Republican Print. Company, 1917 - 110 страница
 

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Страница 94 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come...
Страница 43 - But the ugly and incredible thing has actually come about and we are without adequate Federal laws to deal with it. I urge you to enact such laws at the earliest possible moment and feel that in doing so I am urging you to do nothing less than save the honor and self-respect of the nation. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy must be crushed out.
Страница 90 - The Right of Suffrage — The right to vote comes from the State, and is a State gift. Naturalization is a Federal right, and is a gift of the Union, not of any one State. In...
Страница 90 - Union aliens (who have declared intentions) vote and have the right to vote equally with naturalized or native-born citizens. In the other half only actual citizens may vote. (See Table of Qualifications for Voting in each State, on another page.) The Federal naturalization laws apply to the whole Union alike, and provide that no alien may be naturalized until after five years
Страница 43 - I am urging you to do nothing less than save the honor and self-respect of the nation. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. They are not many, but they are infinitely malignant, and the hand of our power should close over them at once. They have formed plots to destroy property...
Страница 60 - WHEN the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock...
Страница 43 - There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags, but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life...
Страница 90 - The Federal naturalization laws apply to the whole Union alike, and provide that no alien may be naturalized until after five years' residence. Even after five years' residence and due naturalization he is not entitled to vote unless the laws of the State confer the privilege upon him — and he may vote in...
Страница 81 - State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Страница 61 - For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low-priced labor, we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced, and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write.

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