They would all be admissible if this bill were a law. I intend to vote for this bill. not because I am wholly satisfied with it. for I am not. I am not fully satisfied with the methods proposed for weeding out undesirable immigrants as the best that could be devised. I am not satisfied with it. further. because I should be glad to see other provisions in this bill than are found in it. but I believe it is a step in the right direction. Mr. Chairman. 30 years ago the immigration to this country was made up lrgely. if not entirely. of young men in whose breasts the spirit of liberty was stirring. and who looked to this land of the free as a place for larger opportunity and for the better facilities it offered of acquiring a competency and the pursuit and enjoyment of happiness. While this condition existed it constituted a method of natural selection that secured for this country the very best elements of the populations of the countries from which they came. and if that condition still existed I should be opposed to this legislation or any other legislation that would prevent the coming to this country of immigrants of the character of those of that time. but that condition is entirely changed. Mr. Chairman. I desire to send to the Clerks desk and have read in my time a paragraph from the report of the Commissioner General of Immigration of the United States for 1911. which expresses the present situation in this regard.
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