Speech #530144501

I desire to repeat upon this amendment what I said in reference to the former amendment. I am op. posed to a heavy head tax as a means of restricting immigration for the simple reason that. while it works no harm as to the immigrants whom it keeps out. it is a great injustice to the immigrants who come here. If any man who is fit to come here has $50 or $25 he needs that money a great deal more than the Treasury of the United States needs it. Therefore I am opposed to this method of resttrictiag immigration. I have radical notions upon the subject. I believe that our immigration laws should be revised. and that we should adopt mere rigid methods of excluding undesirable immigrants than are now to be found on the statute book. I shallinot be behind any Senator or any citizen in advocating suitable measures of restricting undesirable immigration.