SHOULD IMMIGRATION BE RESTRICTED?
NEGATIVE BRIEF.
INTRODUCTION.
I. The enormous increase in immigration gives rise to a growing interest in some plan for further limiting the number of immigrants coming to the United States.
A. Paupers, idiots, contract laborers, the Chinese, and several other classes of people are already excluded.
B. The subject has been discussed in legislatures, in political meetings, from pulpits, in reform clubs, and among individuals.
II. The problem divides itself into two distinct questions:—
A. Is it for the advantage of the United States that immigration be further checked or limited?
B. If so, in what way should the check or limit be applied?
III. These questions must be considered, first, from the industrial point of view; and, secondly, from the political point of view.