I do not dread the verdict on my attitude on this bill in the slightest degree. Let us not yield to misguided fear or selfishness In passing a law that would belittle our boasted claims to nobility as a nation and weigh us down with the sin of ingratitude and the curse of greed. It would be ingratitude crying to heaven for vengeance if the great people who now occupy this arena of human endeavor should now. after having themselves come from lands of oppression across the sea. after having come with no more right than the humblest emigrant has today to come. having come and occupied this land and made good and .enjoyed the bounties that nature offered and a just government afforded. it would be base ingratitude and a national ignominy to now selfishly shut the door in the face of the men whose only crime was to have been born under a flag that denied them an opportunity to editcate themselves. I can not make myself believe that this great Nation of ours will ever bring upon itself such ignominy and disgrace as that. I can not make myself believe that our Presidentno.
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