That one fact will be an inducement. I think. quite sufficient to draw a great number of them here. But when to that fact is added the other great and monstrous fact of the persecutions that have taken place during many years in the Island of Cuba. there can be no reason why we should exclude them from coming to our coasts and becoming naturalized under our laws. A great many of the young Cubans come to the United States now in preference to going to Europe for the purpose of obtaining an education. Our colleges and schools have been largely patronized by them. and I suppose from this time forward that influx will greatly increase. unless their native land should become a home to those people in which they can afford to live. In order to bring before the country and the Senate a proper knowledge of the reasons that have influenced these people in their migration to the United States. as to which there has been some complaint made by some of our wise statesmen. I desire to review the facts. at least to some extent. that have occurred in regard to this migration from Cuba to the United States. and to bring to the attention of the American people the justification that exists for their coming here and seeking shelter under our extradition laws and under our flag and under the aegis of this great and splendid Republic. There has been a good deal said in American oratory. in almost every place where that high trait has been exercised at all. upon the subject of this being the hospitable home of all the refugees who flee from tyranny and oppression in all the countries of the world. That is a very great fact. It is a beautiful reality.
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