6. * Do you think unrestricted immigration is best for our country? 7. Why is the present discrimination against the Chinese not just? 8. When and to what extent was control over immigration assumed by the United States Government? 9. What measures were passed in 1903? Has there been any action since? 10. What classes of immigrants are excluded as unfit? Who decides in case of doubt? 11. Are many immigrants sent back? Why do the steamship companies bring the unfit? IV. _Violation._ 12. How is immigration solicited? How is it coerced? 13. What is the purpose and what the actual working of the "Contract-Labor Law"? V. _What Can the Christian Public do to Improve Conditions?_ 14. * Can we expect immigrants to obey our laws, if they are started in such ways? Why not? 15. Has Christian public opinion any special duty in this matter? What is it? REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER II I. Visit and inspect if possible, some receiving station for immigrants, and report; or else consult the statements and charts of Reports of the Commissioner of Immigration, for the year ending June 30, 1905. II. Describe the Brandenburgs during life among Italians, and journey to this country as immigrants; their aims, and the results achieved. Brandenburg: Imported Americans, IV, XIII, XV, XXII. III. The present regulation of immigrants, with special reference to "The Excluded." Laws for 1903. Hall: Immigration, 216-231. Brandenburg: Imported Americans, 248-274. IV. Is there need for further restriction? Hall: Immigration, XI, XII. Hunter: Poverty, VI. Charities and The Commons, issue for March 31, 1906. _The evils attendant upon unrestricted immigration are not theoretical but actual. Emigration from one place becomes immigration into another. It is an international affair of greatest importance, and should be speedily recognized as such._--J. D. Whelpley. III PROBLEMS OF LEGISLATION AND DISTRIBUTION The immigration question in this country has never had the attention to which its importance entitles it. It has sometimes been the scapegoat of religious and racial prejudices, and always, in recent years, an annual sacrifice to the gods of transportation.--_Prescott F. Hall._