THE ALIEN QUESTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42749, 18 July 1905, Page 3

THE ALIEN QUESTION.

In tno finest of his patriotic poems / Lowell boasted that the United States 1 was a land,— • . . . Whose free latch string never was drawn in Against the poorest child of Adam’s kin.’ \ The latch-string, however, has long since been replaced by a lock, and the door is now kept closed when that particular child knocks. A writer in the ‘North American Review,’ seems to think that it would be well for England to do as America has done. Immigration into England is absolutely unrestricted and unchallenged. Such unfettered entry is, I believe, absolutely unique. And it is worth nothing that it goes beyond the example set by the Jewß themselves Id Boron Hirsch's Jewish colony in Argentina, ns well as in similar establishment elsewhere, Jewish immigrants are carefully inspected and such ' as are mentally, physically, or morally unfit ore unhesitatingly rejected. England alone receives all who come to her—the pauper, the criminal, the vicious, the inefficient, as well as the industrious, the clean living, and the capable. But is poverty by itself so great a crime as the immigration laws of the United States, for instance, S6etn« to make it out to be ?