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situation teaches a valuable lesson, namely that there is in the 

 immigration problem something more than a matter of eco- 

 nomics. 



No matter how trade-unions develop in Japan, or in China, 

 or in Arabia, no matter how high the standard of wages may 

 become in those countries, the people of these nationalities are 

 undesirable citizens for a country like the United States, be- 

 cause they do not mix, they remain separate. They cannot be 

 taken up into the species. And real unity of species is a very 

 great factor in the happiness of a people. According to the 

 theory that economic reasons underly the aversion to immi- 

 gration of Orientals, the Japanese aristocracy would furnish 

 desirable immigrants. And the Sicilians who merely come over 

 for a season, to work and earn a certain sum of money to take 

 home would be undesirable immigrants. In reality neither one 

 nor the other is true. 



Are we, in immigration, concerned with the qualities of the 

 men and women and children coming in, are we, for instance, 

 to judge of their desirability according to one standard, rejec- 

 ting individuals of inferior morality or intellect, and welcome 

 sane, thrifty, healthy individuals, no matter of what national- 

 ity? Or should we remember that we are dealing with mem- 

 bers of species coming in, and judge of the desirability of 

 Chinese or Syrians, French, Poles and Fins as species, accord- 

 ing to what we can find out about the way in which the Chi- 

 nese and Syrians and French and Poles and Fins and their 

 children and grand-children have assimilated themselves, and 

 lost their identity in this common nationality, this common 

 species? Bennett tells, how he felt the impulse of writing down 

 "Yes" in the blank given him to fill in by the immigration offic- 

 ials of the United States, where it asked him "Are you an 

 Anarchist?". 



We felt the impulse to write across the blank "We are Hol- 

 landers," and leave the rest unanswered as immaterial. 



How have we to consider the aberrations from normal type 

 which we find occasionally at home, and among the immi- 



