Statistics will show that our nativeborn Americans are leaving the farms in large numnbers and are now seeking the smaller towns and cities. No one will deny that one of our greatest problems today is that of securing men to put into cultivation the thousands upon thousands of acres which are now lying dormant. The Canadian Parliament appropriates over $1.000.000 annually to encourage immigration to their country. and see the wonderful growth they have undergone during the past few years. Let me quote from the statement made before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization by George H. Fairchild. senator of the Territory of Hawaii. on April 25. 1912. what he has to say regarding the admission of illiterate immigrants to -awaili: It would be difficult to find under the American flag a more progressive. better educated. and thoroughly Americanized body of men. but one generation removed from the European stock. than are the second generation * * * the sons of the sturdy but illiterate farmers brought to Hawaii. I have before me a copy of a message that was sent to the House of Representatives on March 2. 1897. by that great leader of Democracy. the first Democratic President since the war. Grover Cleveland. in vetoing a similar bill.
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