Immigration And Its Effects Upon the United States
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388 (Jan. 1888). Political Effects 189 homogeneous population. So we are tending to take more and more power from legislative councils, and to concentrate it in executive officers, such as mayors, heads of departments and commissions, in order to secure effi- cient control of the heterogeneous elements of our population. In the words of Professor Commons, 10 " we have actually begun to despotize our institutions in order to control these dissident elements, though still optimistically holding t...hat we retain the original de- mocracy. " Whether such a change makes for good or for evil, time will show ; but it is at any rate a profound alteration of our political system, and results largely from immigration. B. NATURALIZATION. 11 In view of the number of aliens coming to our shores, and the great political power which foreign-born voters can exercise, it is important to consider what the require- ments have been as to naturalization, and how far they have safe-guarded the ballot. The singular indifference of the public to the matter of naturalization, as to all subjects affected by immigra- tion, is shown by the fact that our present naturalization laws are substantially the same as those established by the Act of Congress of April 14, 1802.
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