Speech #540081305

Mr. Speaker. I have listeVed to the remarks of the chairman of the committee. but when I come to consider that his speech is made in support of an immigration bill ostensibly to restrict immigration. although his speech is a very able one. I fail to see any argument in it except an argument against the restriction. of immigration. Mr. Speaker. if there is one thing in this country more than another that is burdensome to the people today it is unreasonable immigration. Wie. as a country. have been for years inviting immigrants to come here and live with us. The difficulty is that they have all accepted our invitation. and today there are more immigrants coming into the country than the country can assimilate. Whenever that occurs in any nation it must necessarily injure that nation. They will either assimilate us or we will assimilate them. That is the rule with all immigration movements. You can easily imagine a state of things where the number of immigrants coming into a country is larger than the natural increase of the country. In that event they would assimilate us. We would conform to their ways instead of their conforming to our ways.