nt was control over immigration assumed by
the United States Government?

9. What measures were passed in 1903? Has there been any action
since?

10. What classes of immigrants are excluded as unfit? Who decides
in case of doubt?

11. Are many immigrants sent back? Why do the steamship companies
bring the unfit?

IV. _Violation._

12. How is immigration solicited? How is it coerced?

13. What is the purpose and what the actual working of the
"Contract-Labor Law"?

V. _What Can the Christian Public do to Improve Conditions?_

14. * Can we expect immigrants to obey our laws, if they are
started in such ways? Why not?

15. Has Christian public opinion any special duty in this matter?
What is it?

REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER II

I. Visit and inspect if possible, some receiving station for
immigrants, and report; or else consult the statements and charts
of Reports of the Commissioner of Immigration, for the year ending
June 30, 1905.

II. Describe the Brandenburgs during life among Italians, and
journey to this country as immigrants; their aims, and the results
achieved. Brandenburg: Imported Americans, IV, XIII, XV, XXII.

III. The present regulation of immigrants, with special reference
to "The Excluded." Laws for 1903. Hall: Immigration, 216-231.
Brandenburg: Imported Americans, 248-274.

IV. Is there need for further restriction? Hall: Immigration, XI,
XII. Hunter: Poverty, VI. Charities and The Commons, issue for
March 31, 1906.

_The evils attendant upon unrestricted immigration are not
theoretical but actual. Emigration from one place becomes
immigration into another. It is an international affair of greatest
importance, and should be speedily recognized as such._--J. D.
Whelpley.

III

PROBLEMS OF LEGISLATION AND DISTRIBUTION

The immigration question in this country has never had the attention to
which its importance entitles it. It has sometimes been the scapegoat of
religious and racial prejudices, and always, in recent years, an annual
sacrifice to the gods of transportation.--_Prescott F. Hall._

It is exasperating to any patriotic American to have brought
convincingly before him the proofs of a wholesale evasion of a very
carefully planned code of laws which he fain would think is a sufficient