Mr. Chairman. as I have already stated. many men who have given a great deal of study to this subject and have had great experience agree that something of this kind is now most necessary. In this connection I beg to call to the attention of the committee the words of the present CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. as found in his report for 1904. He says: It can not. In justice to the Interest of our country and to the preservation of its institutions. be too urgently or too frequently repeated that. in confining our treatment of the allimportant Immigration problem to the exclusion of such of certain enumerated classes as we can detect. our policy is superficial. The practical and pressing question Is. What shall be done with the annual arrivals of aliensapproximating now 1.000.000to avoid the dangers threatened thereby or resulting therefrom. which only the thoughtless or groundlessly optimistic can deny. It is for us to say. gentlemen of the committee. whether we shall continue this superficial policy we are now pursuing or whether we shall seriously attempt to further cull out the undesirable immigrants that are coming to our shores. It does not matter to me that a man is an* Italian. an Englishman. a Bulgarian. or a Lithuanian. The only question that I am interested in as a legislator and American is whether he is a desirable addition to our citizenship.
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