Mr. Speaker. -at the last session of this Congress I have sat and listened to and read several speeches of gentlemen who declaimed loudly against the immigrant from Russia. AustriaHungary. and Italy. I have heard these peoples. with centuries of civilization and culture behind them. denounced as unfit for American citizenship and as tending to corrupt our morals. lower our ideals. and debase our national life. and through the infusion of their blood bring about the mental and physical degeneracy of the people of this country. And yet we are confronted with the spectacle of a nation hardly emerged from barbarism treated with a consideration by this nation that seems to imply some wondrous superiority of this branch of the yellow race over the white races. And. strange as it may seem. I heard no denunciation or even a criticism of the Japanese by the Members of this House who so feelingly portrayed the evils of this European immigration and its detrimental effect upon the American people. Mr. Speaker.
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Peoples from Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Italy are unfit for American citizenship and corrupt our morals.