Mr. Speaker. no grosser insult could be offered to the American people than by an attempted comparison. or by the assertion that even a dozen of our citizens were animated by the same spirit that caused the Chinese riots. Four different and distinct reasons are being advanced for the further restriction of immigration. and in a candid. dispassionate discussion of these reasons can be said all that is to be said on the subject. They are: First. nonassimilation of many immigrants and the evils resulting therefrom. second. overcrowding. third. the competition of immigrants with our own labor. and fourth. the recent increase of arrivals of less desirable elements of Europes surplus population. After a twentyyear study of this question. extending to all its bearings and carried on here as well as on the other side of the Atlantic. during several visits to the Old World made for that purpose. I feel competent to discuss it with some degree of knowledge of detail. and while doing so I ask the kind indulgence of the House. Let me say at the outset that of all the reasons enumerated above the only valid one. in my judgment. is the fourth or last. which relates to the deterioration. so to speak. noticeable of late in the character of our immigration. The bill under discussion and which the committee asks the House to pass is based on this point.
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