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I believe that applies with equal force to 90 per cent of the men in this House. Yet the cry which goes up from one end of the country to the other is the cry for labor. The chairman of the committee says we are not getting desirable immigrants from northern Europe. It is more profitable for the immigrant to remain where he is in his own country. Denmark. Norway. Sweden. the countries that the gentleman cites as furnishing the higher type of immigration. are today countries of immigration and not emigration. and what is true of those countries is true of England. Scotland. Germany. France. and Ireland. and every one of the countries that possess what are termed desirable immigrants were as undesirable 50 years ago as the Italian and the Jew are today. The German is not coming here. because they have harnessed the streams and Germany has developed manufactures. and it is more profitable for the German to remain at home. The Irish are not coming here because I guess nearly all of them are here at the present time. By the way. it is a funny thing. but my friends question recalls a peculiar thing. We talk about immigration. I find here a book on Rocliambeau that was published by order of the .House. I was amused in looking over the book to find the names of the Frenchmen who accompanied Rochambeau to this country.