UNCLE SAM’S CAREFULNESS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8

UNCLE SAM’S CAREFULNESS.

HOW HE EXAMINES ALIENS. Uncle Sam is very careful as to whom he will admit of all the applicants into his new country. He does not want the dregs of European life. He likes to get the fresh, virile, unexploited * northern races over to hl& side, especially when he can get those who have been gathering their strength for centuries in the simple, quiet i country life. He does not nearly so much desire specimens from the effete, degenerate races with a glorious past, perhaps, but a sad present and dark future—especially if they come degraded by slum-life in. European cities. Certain classes of people he will not' have at all—former convicts, diseased or aged persons, paupers, polygamists, anarchists, &c., and he has built great houses of inspection to prevent, if he can, any such getting into his country. The largest of these immigration stations is at Eliis Island, in the part of New York near by the great statue of Liberty. Perhaps there is Uo spot in the world more interesting to one who loves human nature than Ellis Island.

Here, one sees every day tragedies and comedies innumerable. Here, in a few short hours, thousands of men and women with world-wide differences in race, language, and ideas, pass through the* same examination. Here you see them coming up to that crisis in their lives which they have perhaps been dreaming about for years—the entrance into this new country of hope—and here, one by one, you hear them questioned, see them examined, and finally passed or rejected. *