I believe the time is coming when. nothwithstanding the danger of being subjected to the criticism of demagogues who will seek to array the worthy elements of our foreignborn population against those who undertake to stand in the pathway of this evil. the time is coming when we must face the responsibility. when the American Congress must see to it that classes who in the very nature of things can not be Americanized shall be prohibited from taking up their domicile inthe United States. And in this connection another question arises. Our present naturalization laws were passed at a time when our immigration consisted of the very cream of the population of Europe. The large immigration between 1848 and 1860 was caused by political complications abroad. The great revolutionary movement of 1848 had provoked disquietude through all Europe. and had caused the general migration from the Germanic States of men who came here because they desired to live in a republic. They came here because they were republicans and sought the blessings of republican institutions.
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Some classes cannot be Americanized.