Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 78

22. Henry Cabot Lodge, “The Restriction of Immigration,” North American Review 152 (January 1891): 27-36.

Essay advocating a restriction on the immigration of unskilled workers to the United States. “In a word, the continued introduction into the labor market of four hundred thousand persons annually, half of whom have no occupation and most of whom represent the rudest form of labor, has a very great effect in reducing the rates of wages and disturbing the labor market.”