Such men as they laid the foundations of our earlier new Commonwealths. and comparatively few of them could either read or write. Would you shut out such men if they came to us now across the seas? You would if this bill were a law. Some of you gentlemen who are casting such bitter aspersions upon the immigrants now coming here from the countries of southern and eastern Europe do not know what you are talking about. They are not a "coarse crew." neither are they the " scum" or "offscourings" of Europe. as they are so flippantly called. They are from among the best people of those countries.
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Refutes negative stereotypes about immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, claiming they are not a "coarse crew" or "scum".