Cities are yet to be built which will rival the most opulent and 3opulous of the present day. Commonwealths are yet to be founded. or at any rate are yet in their infancy. which in time will vie with the strongest and most powerful of the States now composing the Union. Why. sir. we are just in the infancy of our development. and we never had greater need for people than we have today. and yet it is at this time that this cry for restricted immigration comes up to retard our development and to humiliate us in the eyes of the world. Mr. President. I should be ashamed to stand up in my place in the Senate of the United States and to put forth such a pitiful and contemptible plea as that. It has been our policy from the inauguration of the Government to invite immigration. it has been our proud boast that none were turned away from our shores who were worthy and deserving. A distinguished statesman once said that the gates of Castle Garden swung inward. but never outward. I may not quote his exact words. but I do not misquote the meaning of his words. They were intended to emphasize the fact tlat conditions in this country were such as not only to invite immigration. but to make it welcome and desirable wh6n it came. They were likewise intended as a pinan of gratulation of the noble policy which had always guided the Republic in this matter of immigration. and now it is proposed to reverse that policy. Why. Mr.
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