250 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



signees in New York, having received a 

 copy of the ship's manifest by fast mail, 

 discovering that they had on board these 

 contraband grape vines, had sent a tug 

 down the Bay to intercept the freight 

 steamer and to notify its Captain that if a 

 single one of these grape vines was found 

 by the Custom House on his ship, the whole 

 cargo would be condemned; so, before en- 

 tering port, overboard went every grape 

 vine. 



Neither our Government nor .these 

 steamship companies, who bring diseased, 

 feeble-minded, ill-bred specimens of human- 

 ity to our shore, have a medical examiner 

 with a microscope to select out and throw 

 overboard those humans that they find in- 

 fected with microbes which cause infantile 

 paralysis and other diseases of which we, 

 until lately, never heard. Oh, no; for the 

 steamship companies get five dollars, eight 

 dollars or ten dollars per head, and, in many 

 cases, they get a bonus from foreign coun- 

 tries for removing their rotten human de- 

 bris, just as we pay the garbage men for 



