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pressed of all nations, she may well oppose any practice 

 that tends to lure persons here by raising false hopes of an 

 easy acquisition of riches. 



4. Control op Immigration 



It has long been recognized in this country that it is a 

 national duty to regulate immigration. Our present immi- 

 gration laws recognize this right and duty. Section 2 of 

 the Immigration Act has the following eugenic provisions: 



"That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admis- 

 sion into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, 

 epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five 

 years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at 

 any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; 

 professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loath- 

 some or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within 

 any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified 

 by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such 

 mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of 

 such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit 

 having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral 

 turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of 

 polygamy, anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the over- 

 throw by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of 

 all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public offi- 

 cials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the 

 purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who 

 procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the pur- 

 pose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose." 



Now while few dispute the right and the duty of this 

 country to control immigration there is a difference of opin- 

 ion as to the degree and nature of that control. There are 

 those who think that the present restrictions are sufficient 

 and beyond them inmiigration should be encouraged; there 

 are others who believe that immigration should be much 

 further restricted by requiring educational, property and 

 other qualifications. This difference of opinion is based 



