If they come of their own free will. whether they can read or write is not the question. we shall need them all in our economic. industrial. and in our political system. We shall have room for them in the future as in the past. We need the leaven of immigration. we need the new blood from year to year. The gentleman from Alabama says in a few years our blood or that of our posterity will run down and be degenerated by such immigration. I reply to him that if we shut ourselves in by a Chinese wall and do not have the influx of new blood and new immigration. always confining it. of course. to the right kind of racesto the Aryan racethe time will come when this great people will degenerate because of the want of new blood and new incentive. That is the lesson history teaches. exclusion of new blood means decay. The only way this nation can go forth and work out its great destiny is by the same step and the same gait it has taken from the beginning. and that is to open its gates to all desirable immigrants. to those men who are willing to work. men who are honest. men who are not paupers. men who are not criminals. no matter whether they can read or write or have money. and they are the stratum from which we must draw our magnificent citizenship in the future. as we have drawn it in the past. New blood. fresh people from the parent stock of the Aryan race. brought under our free institutions. under the Constitution. under our ideas of government. will. together with our resident population. build up this Western continent and nation so that it will truly set the pace. not only in political life. but in the industrial. commercial. and moral life of the nations of the world. Talk about morality. why. is it not true that you find immorality under the cloak of persons who can read and write?
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