I say that those who are already here can not complain against our discriminating against the further importation of that class of labor. But when you come to the men from whom you and I are descended. whether they came yesterday or a hundred or two hundred years agoI mean the Englishman. the Welshman. the Irishman. the Scotchman. the Frenchman. the German. the men from northern. Europe. the men whose blood we bear. whether they are citizens of today or descendants of citizens of a hundred years agocan you. say that they will complain against a test that excludes as immigrants from their countries only five men out of every hundred men that come here? Can any man say that the great Gelman citizenship of this country. that citizenship that has lent its aid so greatly to build up the Republic. to develop our broad acres. to build its homes. that they will complain against a test that only excludes from coming here four men in every hundred that wish to come to this country. and yet protect them from the competition of the Sloyaks. the Polish. and the Hungarians. of which 50 per cent who come here can not read or write? I say no. I say that.the great German citizenship of this country love their adopted country. They love the American flag and love the American standard of living. They love American protection to the wageearner in this country too well to fight a law which will protect them and their country from indiscriminate immigration. because forsooth four out of every hundred citizens who seek to come here from Germany are stopped at the gates.
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