There is not one on this side of thb Chamber. and perhaps no one within the sound of my voice. who can justly deny that that great victory was largely due to the loyalty. the sound sense. and the conservatism of our adopted citizens. who. almost irrespective of party. voted for sound money. protection. and McKinley. thereby turning the scales in more than half a dozen Statesin Ohio. in Illinois. in Wisconsin. in Michigan. in Iowa. in Minnesota. and even in old Kentucky. I should not refer to this fact now. Mr. Speaker. if it hal not a direct bearing upon this question of immigration. The advocates of harsh measures of restriction of immigration never fail to point to the ignorant foreign vote as a justification of their position. It was said in the Senate. and it was repeated in the House last summer. that immigration was a growing danger to the institutions of our country. and the great centers of population were pointed out as an especial source of peril. But the result of the ast election. Mr.
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The ignorant foreign vote is a danger to the institutions of our country.