Under these circumstances. I say. the question certainly. arises whet her the Republican minority of this House should aid the Democratic majority in what seems to be purely a political game. and whether it would not be right and proper for the Republican minority to refuse this aid when it comes to the solution of a fundamental problem and the change of a traditional policy of the Goveranient. My own judgment is that the immigration problem should be left to the next Congress to solve. a Congress which will come fresh from the people and which will be controlled by a party that has received a popular. miandate to decide such questions. not as we wish to decide them but as the newly selected Representatives see fit to solve them. There is only one other explanation for the precipitate action of the majority in this matter. which. however. I can not quite reconcile with my conception of American public spirit. Could it be possible. Mr. Chairman. that Members have been intimidated by certain secret societies. by organizations which are proscribing people on account of their religion. and are opposing immigration on such unAmerican grounds? I can hardly persuade myself that the great Democratic Party. which. the same as the Republican Party. has always stood for freedom of conscience and religious liberty. should have fallen to the depth of heeding those who are daily preaching a religious war. I know this to be an issue in this country at the present time. although few have the courage to speak about it.
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