They have already assimilated the people in those sections. and in those sections we are becoming like unto and of them. Well. now. I do not object to immigration. I welcome immigration. but I stand upon this principle. that immigration faster than we can Americanize the immigrants is unwholesome in this country. This country is the first object of my solicitude. As far as we can assimilate the children of other countries. in Gods name let them come to us. but when they come in such large numbers that we can not assimilate them and make them American citizens. why. we can not stand it. No nation on earth can stand it. No nation ever has stood it. Talk of our prairies and the places where immigrants may go! If they would only go there. Mr. Speaker. the curse of undesirable immigration would not be felt so heavily. but nearly 70 per cent of the immigrants coming into this country stay in the already overcrowded Eastern States. and a very small percentage of them go into the far West. I admit that the very best of them do go into the far West and that the very worst of them do stay with us. Take the State of Pennsylvania. Why. sir. that State is suffering today in various localities from a large. a too large. immigration. Of al the Hungarians that have come to this country during the last year 54 per cent have remained in Pennsylvania. In that State we have whole towns and villages of them. and now and then in our coke regions there occurs what is known as a Hungarian riot. when they "run amuck." and no law and no police regulation can withstand them.
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Immigration faster than we can Americanize the immigrants is unwholesome. The worst of them stay with us.