t is the head and not the
head-money that should be looked at. Think of the responsibility. More
than 300,000 women passed through the "moral wicket" at Ellis Island
last year. Of course many of bad quality, men and women both, get
through, for inspectors on too meager salaries are not omniscient, but a
good word should be said for these public servants, who in the main are
conscientiously performing a delicate and difficult task.[25] Let us see
some of the results of their work. This will give an idea of the large
numbers who ought never to have been allowed to leave home.

[Sidenote: Record of the Debarred]

The following table shows the principal classes of excluded for the past
fourteen years, with the total debarred for each year, and the
percentage:

THE DEBARRED FOR THE YEARS 1892-1905

Table headings:

Col A: Year
Col B: Immigrants
Col C: Idiots
Col D: Insane persons
Col E: Paupers, or likely to become public charges
Col F: Loathsome or dangerous or contagious diseases
Col G: Convicts
Col H: Assisted Immigrants
Col I: Contract laborers
Col J: Total Debarred
Col K: Percentage of whole

A B C D E F G H I J K
----+---------+--+---+-----+-----+----+----+------+------+------+
1892| 579,663| 4|17 |1,002| 80| 26 | 23 | 932 | 2,164| 0.4
1893| 439,730| 3| 8 | 431| 81| 12 | .. | 518 | 1,053| 0.2
1894| 285,631| 4| 5 | 802| 15| 8 | .. | 553 | 1,389| 0.5
1895| 258,536| 6|.. |1,714| ..| 4 | 1 | 694 | 2,419| 0.9
1896| 343,267| 1|10 |2,010| 2| .. | .. | 776 | 2,799| 0.8
1897| 230,832| 1| 6 |1,277| 1| 1 | 3 | 328 | 1,617| 0.7
1898| 229,299| 1|12 |2,261| 258| 2 | 79 | 417 | 3,030| 1.3
1899| 311,715| 1|19 |2,599| 348| 8 | 82 | 741 | 3,798| 1.2
1900| 448,572| 1|32 |2,974| 393| 4 | 2 | 833 | 4,246| 1.0
1901| 487,918| 6|16 |2,798| 309| 7 | 50 | 327 | 3,516| 0.7
1902| 648,743| 7|27 |3,944| 709| 9 | .. | 275 | 4,974| 0.8
1903| 857,046| 1|23 |5,812|1,773| 51 | 9 |1,086 | 8,769| 1.0
1904| 812,870|16|33 |4,798|1,560| 35 | 38 |1,501 | 7,994| 1.0
1905|1,026,499|38|92 |7,898|2,198| 39 | 19 |1,164 |11,480| 1.2
----+---------+--+---+-----+-----+----+----+------+------+-----+
Total debarred in the fourteen years, 59,248.

[Sidenote: Right of Appeal]

The debarred have the right of appeal, from the Special Inquiry Board
which excludes them, to the Commissioner of