You must fix your standard where it is just and right to the great body of the people you are legislating for. and then if some unfortunate falls below the standard. why it is his misfortune. It does not make the law unjust. I will say to my friend from Missouri that he looks at it from the standard of the immigrant who is coming here. He looks at it from the standpoint of the man who seeks to come here and find an asylum. I will say that I would be very glad for the great American Republic to open its arms to the distressed of all the world if we could do so without danger to ourselves. but I think our first duty is to our citizens at home and our next duty may be to citizens of other countries whom we are willing to welcome and to uplift in the standards of our civilization. but when our own people are threatened by indiscriminate immigration into this country. the hour has come when we must first be just to them. and the only way to be just to them is in some way to prescribe limitations on the importation into this country of all classes of immigration from Europe. regardless of what may be the effect on us. In the decades to come we have got to assimilate these people. Their blood will be joined with our blood. andif they are not up to the standard of the rest that are already here. they will pull us down toward their standard.
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Immigrants from Europe will pull down the American standard.