The Mahnomen Pioneer

Restricting Immigration

Many of the foreign countries whose citizens are seeking to immigrate to the United States are obliged to keep their own citizens for one, two, three, four and five years, while the waiting lists and the quotas are being reduced to permit these aliens to cross the Atlantic and become citizens of the land of the free and the home of the brave. It was an act of wisdom that the United States raised the bars against immigrants at the close of the war. If this had not been done Europe would have been depopulated by this time, and the United States would have been crowded with common labor competing for ordinary jobs.

The immigration laws have been enacted under the guiding direction of Representative Albert Johnson of the State of Washington, Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration. In a recent statement Mr. Johnson said that further restriction of immigration seems to be imperative. He says that the question will come up again in congress next winter. One of the changes will apply to countries whose present immigration quotas are 10,000 or less, so as to enable immigrants from countries like Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Italy to come into the United States would have been crowded of struggling to obtain admission individually.