Mr. Speaker. the bill attempts to reverse our Nations sound and wholesome policy of receiving the foreigner healthy in mind and body. lawabiding and selfsupporting. coming from abroad. where equal opportunity or educational advantages may have been denied them. and affording them under our beneficent system of constitutional government an asylum against oppression and persecution. It Is directed against the foreign born wholly. regardless of the fact that immigration has served in an immense degree to build up the country. and in its marvelous development enrieh Its towns and cities and contribute to its growth. its welfare. and prosperity. This bill is opposed by the many who have had ample opportunity to understand to the fullest extent by experience and observation the immigration qnestion. Let me read but a single paragraph from a severe editorial criticism published in this mornings New York American upon the action of Congress in passing the immigration bill. There it is said: A reading of the roll call of Congress makes us wonder how many of the parents of the lawmakers of this Nation would have been excluded under the very bill that is now so dangerously near becoming a law. * * * I read that particularly because the welltimed and Wellexpressed remarks of the gentleman from Colorado only emphasize the truth of that editorial statement. Mr.
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