Summing up, this plan would achieve in simple fashion the following things:
Undesirable emigrants would be prevented from leaving their homes.
Ruin and suffering would not fall on those now sent back.
Desirable immigration would be wonderfully stimulated.
Practices of officials of foreign governments in dumping into this country criminals, foundlings, agitators, etc., would be ended.
Emigrants would be protected and great economy in travel would be effected.
Smuggling and underground methods would be disconcerted and contract-labor frauds prevented.
Naturalization frauds would cease to avail, and legal naturalization would be greatly increased.
Custom-house officers would be greatly assisted, revenues increased, and goods-smuggling minimized.
The proper distribution of the flood of immigration would be at all times under the control of the American government.