I submit that an element so largely ignorant as that represented by Russian. Italian. Polish. and AustroHungarian immigration. that an element which. when It comes to this country. seeks not the open air and the open country. but the cities and drifts into the slums and constitutes chiefly that too often vicious and dangerous element of every great American city. is not a proper element for us to Invite and to encourage to come to our shores and to enter into our body politic. I am going to detain the Senate but a moment longer. I recognize the fact that we have been now for two days upon this bill and that the Senate is impatient to have a vote. but before I conclude I want to say just a few words about this question in connection with conditions which exist today in the South.
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Immigrants from Russia, Italy, Poland, and Austria-Hungary are ignorant, seek the cities, drift into the slums, and are a vicious and dangerous element.