Mr. Speaker. one which is worthy to be described by the future historian as an exhibition showing a strange lack of the Christian virtue of tolerance and humanity. I liad aliost said a lack of knowledge. too. because the most intense prejudice against the immigrant seems to be displayed by those who do not know him from personal contact. while the only sympathy shown him comes from the representatives of districts which are overrun by and actually congested from immigration. Even this spectacle. with all its repulsive features. can not shake my abiding faith in the sense of justice of the American people. And juslice. plain. simple justice. is all the immigrant asks. le will get it when his case rises above the votecatching stage and reaches a forum before which his friends can successfully plead the cause of American fair play and the true interests of the country. Two American Presidents. a Democrat and a Republican. have had the courage to stamp this bill out of existence by a veto. and there is no reason to doubt that P resident Wilson will rise to the same height of consistency and selfrespect as his predecessors have done. it is easy to plead the cause of immigration. Traduced as it is. no shortcoming of any kind can justly be laid at its door. and in no instance has its influence been other than highly beneficial to the country. The immigrant comes to us with good and honest intentions. In return for a living he offers us his brain and brawn. lie Is eager to learn and to identify himself with our institutions. for. even if uneducated. he has one trait which fits him superbly for American citizenship. It is his love of liberty and his hatred of oppresson and injustice.
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