Mr. Speaker. I believe that pandering to this socalled sentiment which requires the restriction of immigration will turn out a fallacy and a misfortune. because in the first place it is wrong and no wrong can ever lead to good. If it could be demonstrated that immigration is practically injurious. that it does threaten the labor or the capital or the morality or the civilization of the United States. I should not have one word to say. but how is it that when immigrants came to these shores at the rate of 400.000 and 500.000 a year. nothing was ever said or done. and there were no fears abroad that the liberty of the country or the morality of the people were in danger? It is a mere sentiment. It is a mere notion. impracticable. injurious to the interests of the country. and hostile to the spirit of our institutions and to the civilization of the age.
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