They have fulfilled every dutyas good and patriotic citizens. With the record of the past to guide her. the State is saying to the worthy and oppressed. " Come. a home and a competence await you." When they do come we want the Government to have such facilities for receiving. examining. and caring for them that they may be treated as civilized beings. They may come to us poorly clad as passengers of the crowded steerage quarters. but no man shall say what their future will be in this land of enlarged opportunities. Less than thirty years ago a young man clad in the homely garb of his native land of Norway walked up the gang plank from a steerage berth of a transAtlantic liner. He is today the honored governor of the State of Wisconsin. Two of my colleagues on this floor were born beyond the sea. and no man presunmes to say the State has not been benefited by their presence.
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