It is in deference to their opinions and convictions. as well as to the sentiments of the native born. that I ask that this measure or some one more efficient shall prevail. Conditions have changed since we became a Government. and are constantly changing. necessitating legislation as evils become apparent. That which might have been desirable fifty years ago may have ceased to be so at present. and that which was never desirable in our immigration may have assumed such proportion as to call for restrictive legislation. We have used many devices to induce immigration. Government has supplied information. which. if used. could not act otherwise than as an attraction to other peoples. States have published books showing the advantages within their borders for immigrants. and the time is not remote when their commissioners have been sent abroad to turn the incoming tide to their respective localities. It has been our fault. if fault it was. that we have welcomed indiscriminately the migrations of the Aryan race. I do not fear that we shall suffer the fate of the Briton. who invited the Saxon over to help him turn back the Picts and Scots. and then sank away under the domination of the superior race. still there are other conquests than those of force.
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