Speaker. I supported this bill when it was before the House and I shall support it now. despite the veto of the President. Gentlemen have been telling us for the last hour what induced them to give support to this and other immigration measures. I shall follow that example and give my reasons. I vote for this bill because I believe that in doing so I am serving the best interests of the American people and the Republic. Being entirely convinced that the Republic can not 342 FE3RuAR.Y - 1 9) survive if we do not have a homogeneous people. I shall now. and on every odcasion which may hereafter offer. do what I can to reestablish the homogeneity we have lost through excessive and unregulated immigration. and the loss of which endangers institutions that a large part of such immigrants neither coinprehend nor sympathize with. It is very generally admitted that we would be vastly better off if there were no alien races in the Uniteil States. One such lace we have in large numbers. They came involuntarily and manifest no desire to leave. Asiatics. fleeing the hard condilions of -overpopulated countries. .where men are always cheap and vages low. have been shut out by law. They are declared to be unassimilable. and therefore undesirable. It has been often said in discussing the inmigration question that they were not desirable because they did not merge with our people. did not intermarry. that they worked hard. saved their earnings. and went back to the countries from which they came.
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Immigrants do not comprehend or sympathize with American institutions.