I appreciate as thoroughly as anyone the force of a moral argument. I think an appeal to plain duty does not fall unheeded on my ears. I think I understand in some small degree what should be the generosity. the forbearance. and the breadth of outlook of a great nation. but to me the plain duty that I see arising. is my duty to those whose commission I hold. whose interests I in part represent. who are working along the same lines that I am trying to work. for the upbuilding of great and prosperous commonwealths. and the generosity which appeals to me is the degree of generosity we should show to the best class of immigrants who ever came to our shores. to the men of Sweden. of Denmark. of Belgium. of Germany. and the better class of Russians. the men who mingle with us and in an economic sense. become bone of our bone. flesh of our flesh. who become units in our industrial communities. factors in our civic life. and carry their full share of the burdens of citizenship. The Rocky Mountains are far from the seaboard. butthey are no farther than was the Ohio from the Philadelphia of Washingtons day. The founders of this Govermnent stretched their gaze southward and westward.
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