AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

date of May 8,
Levine.
RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION 57
He says:
1916, an article by Isaac Don
There has been a great deal of discussion in this country
since the war began about the volume of immigration to the
United States after the restoration of peace in Europe.
There are those who argue that conditions in the Old
World will be such after the war is over that there will
hardly be any increase in the present rate of immigration,
which is negligible. But the overwhelming number of
authorities on immigration, among whom are the numerous
representatives of immigrant aid societies, as well as
most of the United States immigration officials, are of the
opinion that immigration to this country after the war will
assume unprecedented proportions.
It may be safely said now that this latter view has come
to be generally recognized as the right one. Those who
believe that for years to come this country will know no
immigration problem disregard economic conditions. They
hope for an era of marvelous recuperation and reconstruction
in Europe, an attractive hope, but hardly justified by
reason. * * *
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I read portions of an article from the Scientific
Monthly of May, 1916, by Prof. Robert
DeC. Ward of Harvard University:
No one who has at heart the future of the American
race can fail to view with concern the probable effects of
the war upon the physical, mental, and moral condition of
our immigrants. The introduction of pestilential war
diseases, such as cholera, typhus, typhoid fever, and the
like is not greatly to be feared, although some of our
medical men are already viewing this problem with much