We may add to these two just measures of reform to which I have alluded the exercise of that wise and reasonable economy in public affairs which is. in my judgment. one of the prime dutiesof thehour. Even this will not suffice to relieve us. We may enact. too. a drastic but discriminating immigration law. Such alaw ought to be passed In the interest of every American citizen. whether nativeborn or naturalized. not simply for the protection of our labor. but also for the protection of our civilization and our institutions. which can no longer stand with safety the strain to which they are being subjected by that class of foreigners who are continually coming to our shores. but who are. nevertheless. totally unfit to become factors in our national life. But when wehave done all of this. sir. we will still ba short of an adequate remedy. Mr.
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Foreigners are unfit to become factors in our national life.