Chairman. I heartily approve of this resolution and desire to submit some remarks il support of it. I have always believed it was wise to encourage imlnigration. if the immigrants were of the proper class. Virginia and the entire South needs immigration. her mineral resources can not be developed with the labor nov available. her manufacturing interest needs an influx of labor. her agricultural interest is crying out for more labor. But while this is true. I ai thoroughly satisfied that she had better suffer for a lack of the necessary number of laborers than introduce into her midst the class of immigration against which this resolution is directed. The question is often raised as to whether the founders and fashioners of our scheme of government would be equal to the problems which confront us today. Whatever decision the question might receive as a merely academic one--for one problem they attempted no solution. for they did not anticipate its emergency in pressing and practical shapeI mean the conversion of our territory into the dumping ground of the nations. They could have no prevision of the great steampropelling caravansaries of the sea. of the great trunk lines across the continent. of the abolition of space by the telegraph. Their forecast was of a steady and normal access and increase of population. And. indeed. the immigration to our shores during the entire first century of our life as a nation was salutary and encouraging and was of our own stock. Practically all the immigrants who came to this country before 1SS0 were from northern Europe. They were of Celtic and Teutonic origin. or. I might say. they were of the strong historic peoples. the authors of the civilization of northern Europeof the land of Shakespeare and Gladstone. of Emmet and Burke. of Goethe and Bismarck.
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