That is partly true and partly not true. The traditional American position is in favor of welcoming honest. industrious. moral. healthy. lawabiding white people who come to this country to become citizens and establish homesto remain here and to become part and parcel of us. Many of our best citizens are foreignborn persons and their children. but the laborers of this country do not believe anybody who does not intend to become an American citizen has a right to come over here and stay and labor in this country and earn wages and take them back to the foreign country and there spend them. If you would add this amendment of the gentleman from Michigan. as amended by my amendment. to this bill it will keep out ninetenths of the undesirable people that come to this country simply to make money without becoming citizens. because the statistics of the last census show. notwithstanding the flood of immigration in the country. in 1900 there were fewer people in the country of foreign -birth. and fewer people one remove from foreign birth. than there were in 1880. and there is not a man living that can give any reason for an exception to this proposition in favor of Canadians and Mexicans.
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