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I never received a reply. Not one member of that organization was nman enough to step to the front and smention his name. No sooner had the campaign begun in earnest than an anonymous circlar made its appearance and was distributed in huldreds of thousands of copies all over my district in which I was blacklisted as a " proRomanist." with a footnote to the effect that I had "always voted for proRoman immigration." This. Mr. Chairman. in spite of the fact that no immigration bill has been voted on in this House for many years. I am sure the membership of this House will agree with me when I say that if a public man is to be stabbed in the back with daggers hidden under the cloak of "Americanism " simply because he refuses. in legislating on the subject of immigration. to make religious distinctions. we are confronted with a problem much more serious than is the problem of immigration. for if acquiesced in it would signify the death at the hands of a political mafla of religious liberty. and it will also be conceded. I hope. that those who make the assault on him on such grounds are a danger to American institutions. because they are violating the spirit and genius of true Americanism. I am a.