But let us put up the bars against the great hordes that come for what spoil they may find. and whose coming can but serve to make harder the lot and heavier the burden of the American workinginan. I resent the criticism that I have heard from certain sources of the patriotic organizations that have in view the protection of our people from these undesirable classes whose presence among us tends to lower the standard of civilization and who. if they continue to come at the present ratio of increase. will inevitably change completely our nationality sooner or later. Those of us who believe in protection have urged in support of it that its primary purpose is to protect our laborers against competition with the products of the pauper labor of other countries. I still believe in that doctrine. But is it consistent to legislate to keep the products of pauper labor out of our country and fail to legislate to keep the pauper laborers themselves out. when their presence here is much more harntful than merely the products of their labor? The gentleman who is in charge of this bill has assured us that the erection of the building at Philadelphia will facilitate the enforcement of existing law regarding immigration. Believing. therefore. that the passage of the bill will tend to a more rigid enforcement of the law and thus help keep out some unadesirable immigrants who might get in if the building is not erected. I shall vote for the appropriation.
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Undesirable immigrants lower the standard of civilization and will change the country's nationality.