What we need
is not more bars to keep foreigners out but more laborers to work with
them and teach them how to gather the harvest of American and Christian
liberty."[48]
QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER III
AIM: TO STUDY THE PROBLEMS OF LEGISLATION AND DISTRIBUTION REGARDING
ALIENS
I. _The Opinions of Capable Observers Regarding Legislation_.
1. Give the names and opinions of some who favor restriction of
immigration. Of some who are opposed. With which do you agree?
2. The Immigration Conference of 1905: What was it? What did it
recommend?
3. As to free admission: What are the rights of the government? Of
the individual?
4. What does President Roosevelt recommend?
II. _Proposed Legislation_.
5. What abuses specially need to be corrected?
6. Name the chief provisions of the "Gardner Bill," before Congress
in 1906.
7. * Give reasons for and against a reading test. Would you have
voted for it or against?
8. Describe and give your opinion of other proposed methods of
restricting immigration.
9. Would it be possible to sift immigrants before they leave
Europe?
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