resulting in inefficient and wasteful application of labor and smaller crops per man, although probably larger crops per acre.
(b) Development of a class of landed proprietors on the one hand and a landless agricultural proletariat on the other.
It is true that the great mass of unskilled labor which has come to the United States in the last few decades has made possible the development of many industries that have furnished an increased number of good jobs to men of intelligence, but many who have made a close study of the immigration problem think that despite this, unskilled labor has been coming in altogether too large quantities. Professor Ross publishes the following illustration:
"What a college man saw in a copper-mine in the Southwest gives in a nutshell the logic of low wages.
"The American miners, getting $2.75 a day, are abruptly displaced without a strike by a train-load of