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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Examining Eyes on the Line at Ellis Island. 



said that America. is their workshop, Europe their home. Thirty per 

 cent, of them return to their former homes. 



As a class, they contribute little of lasting value but the work of 

 therr-'hands for which they are well paid. And from what they earn 

 tifeyVskad home no small part. In 1907 they sent $275,000,000 out of 

 the country. True, this money was earned, but its greater value in in- 

 vestment and development was lost. In contrast to their predecessors, 

 the immigrants since 1883 tend to form a floating population. They 

 do not amalgamate. They are here in no small degree for what they 

 can get. It is not always true that they come to supply a real demand. 

 The periodical advertisement of a national demand for cheap labor does 

 not spring from a true economic need, even though the influx of cheap 

 labor might put more money in the employer's pocket. 



Such is the type of the newer immigration, and its changing and 

 deteriorating character makes restriction justifiable and necessary. No 

 one can stand at Ellis Island and see the physical and mental wrecks 



