Every community in the Northwest is made up largely of individuals who were cradled under another flag than the Stars and Stripes. They have torn asunder the tenderest ties that surround the human heart in order to provide for themselves and their children a happier future and more prosperous homes than offered them in the place of their birth. hey come among us with strong hands and willing hearts to join in the developments of a new country and to bear their share of its trials and partake of its successes. In the prosperous years that we have enjoyed under protection every immigrant stands a living witness refuting the Democratic slanders upon the institutions of the country. that the American laborer is oppressed and dissatisfied with his lot. and that he is more poorly paid than his European brother. I am aware that there is considerable clamor. and some of it quite indiscriminate. against immigration. Pass this bill and the question of immigration will trouble you no longer. Immigrants come here because they expect to better their condition. and placing the industries of the country upon the European level will take away all inducements. I do not believe in permitting indiscriminately all classes to land on our shores. But the Northwest has received more of the foreign element than any other section of the country. and it yields to none in patriotism. in intelligence. in regard for the law. in material development. and in intense Americanism. and it is not finding fault with the character of its citizenship. [Loud applause.]
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