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that if they do not give their children in marriage with 

 the immigrant, they must with the immigrant's children. 

 Invidious comparisons are, therefore, unnecessary ; ques- 

 tions of what this or that race has done or may do need 

 not be settled. It is quite within the province, it is indeed 

 the duty of the native citizen, to require a pause in this 

 mad rush for mere population, until there is a diffusion 

 of education and a healthy growth of a nationalistic 

 spirit. By the time this has been accomplished, the result 

 of the previous policy of the Open Door can be estimated 

 more justly, and any necessary adjustments made ^vith 

 better regard for the good of all the people. 



