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in the thinking and' reasoning years that have come to me I see, as yow 

 have seen, that humanity needs to he lifted up to a higher plane, and 

 that the laws) of our nation, the laws of our State today need to be en- 

 forced; laws that are today dead laws upon our statute books for the want 

 of enforcement. 



In speaking to you tonight of the need's of the hour, I was (startled 

 but a little while ago in reading this statement, and you have seen the 

 same; that in the last 14 years a half million of people a year have landed 

 upon our shores. It is perfectly amazing seven and one-half million peo- 

 ple in the last 14 years have landed upon American soil. Now I would 

 not lor anything be misunderstood; our country does, and she ever has, 

 and I hope she ever will, welcom e to our shores the man and the woman 

 who come here to make themselves a home and a name and, identify them- 

 selves with us as a people. We owe so much to the stranger, the German^ 

 the Irish, and to the English, and you and I need not go back more than 

 a generation, sometimes not as mu ch as that, and we find? English, French, 

 and Irish blood flowing in our veins. But my friends/ I remember in 

 reading in one of Dickens' novels, but I forget which, about a little boy r 

 he was Joe, poor Joe, brought up upon the streets of London and educated 

 as a thief, and whenever he was arrested he would draw himself into his 

 filthy rags and say: "I am poor Joe, I don't know nothing about me," 

 and friends, while we have a law against pauper immigration, I feel in this 

 seven and one-half million in the last 14 years there have been many Joes 

 that have come to us. Many have not cared to identify themselves with 

 us as a people. They are not a growing people, they have come to this 

 country because they thought it was a free country and! they could do as 

 they liked. Freedom does "not mean licentiousness, it means license. 



I was startled in a large Sunday school convention by a question in 

 the question box, it read like this: "What are we going to do with the 

 children of foreign emigration?" The chairman of that convention called 

 on me to answer the question. I told! him it concerned mei a great deal 

 more to know what their children are going to do with our children. This 

 is a class that is filling our penitentiaries, filling our iails, and you are 

 being taxed today to support them. 



