THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8113, 6 April 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1906.

lhe / foreign immigration into the United Stated last year broke all leoords, the total number of new arrivals for the twelve months being well over a million, ijvbiob la 200,000 more than in the preceding year. Austria-Hungary, Italy and Russia supplied the bulk of this new blood. In view of the enormous increase in immigration, and the prospect that owing to the state of Russia and the troubled oc.ndition of Austria - Hungary, the present year may see a repetition of the rush, there is a strong movement in the United States to establish better methods of selection, and a much smaller one to restrict immigration either by imposing a heavy poll-tux, by limiting the number of

immigrants in* any one-year-,, or by suspending immigration! altogether for a period! of yearsi The "Selectionists" urge' that the present ffio© on steamship* companies for bringing diseased immigrants should be increased fromi a> hundred to five hundred dollars-;: that tbev should be subjected to a fine for each) alien rejeoted on arrival for amy cause whioh examination! before sailing would have detected; that the airspace allowed' each steerage passenger should be increased, as much for sanitary and humanitarian reasons as because such a rule would necessarily lessen the number of immigrants in eaohi vessel; that the rea. sons- for rejecting an immigrant should include feeble-mindedness and poor physique; and thai there be preliminary examination of intending immigrants before tbey embark. These proposals fiiad a warm* supporter in President Roosevelt,. who has embodied more than one of them in bis annual messages to Congress,, and they are strongly favoured by the Commissioners of Immigration, who, having to deal with the immiarants on arrival, are in an admirable position to judge of the neoessity for America exeroising greater .discrimination in admitting new citizens.

"The World and his Wife" appears to be one of the newspapers convinced by Mrs Earle, the "British Goat Society," and other powers, that the safety of the nations lies in their capua'ty for taking to goat's milk. A recant article, under the heading "Milk Without Cows," contends strongly for the advantages of this food, its freedom from tuberculous infection, its nutritious qualitiea t and gives inucb valuable information as to the ohoioe and treatment of the "Vacoa Pauperis," or poor man's oow. The poor man is expected to keep bis milch goat on the premises. She is not an exacting animal. "Folk who could never house or find room for a oow can keep a goat with no great diiiioulty " Even a Toggenburg or a Nubian, au Anglo-Toagen-burg or an Anglo-Nubian, of most high-nla9s strain, is oontent with any fo:<d that comes haady, front hay, turnips and potatoes to hush prunings and ivy, and rathev prefers to a straw bed the spartan simplicity of sleep on a low wooden shelf. Yet we know that according to legend a saint once retired from business after one experiment in trying to keep a goat for a whole day. Mrs Earle in "A Third Pot-Pourri," ingenuously admits that within her knowledge several deserving families have refused even a gift goat, as a too troublesome luxury. Her suggestive interpretation of this is that "it is no good giving a goat to poor people, unless you give with it a strong oollar, chain and tethering pin, for unless this is done it is always breaking loose and doing damage. These things are expensive for poor people to buy —the oollar and chain oostiug 7s (id. They try to manage with bits of rope, or other makeshift, and the result is unsatisfactory." Some slight remark upon the "strength and agility" of the beneficent oreature, and the need for "a heavy dog-collar with a ring which will take a spring hook, to which in its turn a really strong obain is attaohed," intimates that even the "World and his Wife" is conscious of one reason why goats are not kept, as might be desirable, in the back premises of "every house in outer Suburbia." We observe, however, that the estimate of the prioe of goats' milk in London, as only twice that of oows' milk, shows the commodity has now fallen into more reasonable plaoe as an artiole of diet. In the summer of 1901 a lady, asking the cost at a well-known London dairy, waa told that goats' milk was four shillings a quart, and on her exclaiming at such au exorbitant figure, the amiable young woman in chirge said "But think how many lives it has saved, madam !"