Although I favor a broad humanity. I believe in beginning at home and measuring outward. I stand for this country first and foremost. and if I believed. as it seems some gentlemen do. that European immigration is an unmixed evil and that its effect is altogether harmful. then I should favor absolute exclusion. If I believed that to be true. I should favor building a wall around this country so high that no alien could scale it. One country in history literally adopted such a program. but no one cites China as a model for a progressive country. I believe that in the present state of our economic. industrial. and social development. the immigration of virile ablebodied young men and women of good moral character from Europe is one of the requisites of our continued progress. This is no new question. There has been scarcely a time since the establishment of our Government that this question was not a living one.
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