Speech #610037142

I was speaking in the ordinary use of that term. There has been a class of immigration there that we would not offer any special inducements to on this side of the line. I do not think it proper. in public speech. or in private speech for that matter. to declaim against any nationality at all. because individual character is not always a question of geography. I used the term in the ordinary sense. In describing a class of immigration that would be undesirable to us. Now. we wahit conditions on our side of the line to be so much better than the conditions on the other side that our people will stay at home. or will come back to this country. and in making these few suggestions in support of retaining the duty recommended by the committee to this body. I do so upon the basis of the actual facts. and with a view not only of retaining existing conditions and inducements. but extending them if possible.