Question
Question 22 of 27
The author of this report would most likely have supported:
Hon. William Williams, Commissioner at New York, says in
his report: "The present laws] do not reach a large body of
immigrants who, while not of this class, are yet generally
undesirable, because unintelligent, of low vitality, of poor
physique, able to perfbrm only the cheapest kind of
manual labor, desirous of locating almost exclusively in the
cities, by their competition tending to reduce the standard
of living of the American wageworker, and unfitted
mentally or morally for good citizenship.
Their coming
has been of benefit chiefly, if not only, to the transportation
companies which brought them here."
Answer
Restricting immigration.