If it is carried out unwiselyit may seriously affect the commerce of the people of the United States. While being unable to protect their health. it may seriously affect their commerce. and in seriously affecting that seriously affect the employment of hundreds of thousands and millions of poor people whose successful and constant employment is both meat and bread to their own mouths and the mouTdis of their wives and children. I can not see any possible good that can come from this measure. and thereforeI shallvote against placing this extraordinary power in the hands of these gentleman. and I shall vote very cheerfully against placing in the hands of the President of the United States. whether he be a Republican or a Democrat. any such extraordinary power as tha% to suspend immigration to this country at his pleasure. It has been the cherished policy of our Government from its very infancy to extend open arms to the people of all the countries of Europe to come and make their homes with us. to live in and help develop our country. They have helped to extend the boundaries of our frontier to the Pacific Ocean. and now have obliterated it entirely.
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