Mr. Speaker. there is no problem confronting the American people more talked about and less generally understood than the problem of immigration. In prosperous times these waves of humanity are permitted to come to our shores unmolested. but in periods of industrial depression every shipload of newcomers is regarded. more or less. in the light of a hostile invasion or a curse. Then the spirit of nativism. omnipresent. if not always active. becomes rampant. and. uniting with libertyloving labor. asks Congress to deny the right of asylum to those who come here to cast their lot with us. and demands of us to cast away. like a wornout garment. the traditional policy of the fathers. a pearl in the diadem of free institutions. and to adopt. under the spur of passionate impulses. plans which patriots and thinkers know can not be carried out without serious injury to the interests of our common country.
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