Speech #630132172

I will be obliged to the Chairman to notify me when 25 minutes of my time is up. I will say why I do not. As I understand this query. it is simply this: Does not this incoming Immigration have a deteriorating effect upon the body politic by the incoming of this great mass of immigrants? How can we decide that question? By any sort of theorizing? No. we must decide that question by consulting the records of this country. We decide it by measuring the effect upon the different communities of this country by the immigrants who have come. We decide it by comparing those sections of the country that have had a large influx of immigrants with those sectionswhich possibly the gentleman represents. I do not knowto which a very small number of immigrants have come. and when considered in that way and such a comparison is made I unhesitatingly assert that the salvation of this country. its virility. nobility. and power. has been largely from the immigrants who came in such great numbers from the lands across the sea. I do not hesitate to say-