While they were of tender years. helpless. of no productive power. these men have been nurtured and supported that when they reached years of vigor and efficiency they might come here and produce each one much more than he consumed. the difference between his own wages and the value of his product being the amoant of his contribution to the wealth of the country. Every man who came here through all these years and engaged in productive labor has been therefore a fountain of abundance. The gentleman from Colorado now seeks to discourage this beneficent tide by making naturalization difficult. if not impossible. to manythe vast majority--of those men who. by the very act of coming here. prove their attachment to our institutions. their love of our soil. their eagerness to bear the burdens as well as to acquire the privileges of citizenship. I protest. Mr. Speaker. against a senseless change in this beneficent system of naturalization which has wrought such great benefit to this country and has shed such a brilliant light of encouragement before the footsteps of men throughout the world. Though no one else should oppose it. I. at least. shall ask to be counted against this bill while that provision remains a feature of it. [Loud applause.]
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