Speech #540082058

I have yielded half of my time to the gentleman from Massachusetts and I desire to be notified if. in the course of my remarks. I should trespass beyond the limits of half an hour. While listening yesterday to the eloquent and inspiring address of the gentleman from Louisiana . the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Ways and MKeans remarked to me: "If the principles involved in the speech of the gentleman from Louisiana are correct. why should we not throw open our doors also to Chinese immigration? If our citizenship is for the people of the world. why should the Chinese be excluded?" That query from the distinguished Representative from M aine brought up the whole question of the emigration history of humanity. It is no reproach to either species that the tiger does not mate with the lion. The reason why we exclude the Chinese from the ports of the United States is that by the very nature of their blood and instincts. they are unfitted to assimilate with our civilization. I apprehend I am saying nothing new or siangse to the members of this House when I recall the fact that human kind is divided into three great families. the Aryan. the Mongolian. and the Turanian. The Aryan family is comprised of those five great branches of tle human racethe Grecian. the Italian. the Germanic. the Slavic. and the Celtic. I say. with some pride in the race from which my forefathers sprang. that it was the Celtic race which first pushed its way westward in the march of civilization beyond the tablelands of central Asia.