Speech #630133035

I believe with all my heart that America forever should be the land of the free and the home of the brave. but the question with me is whether we do not owe a greater duty to the children of our own nationality. to those who are already here. to keep and preserve for them the ideals of Americanism and patriotism which have been inherent in the life of this country from its very beginning. Mr. Chairana. 50 years ago the tide of immigration broke over our borders and found its home in the great prairies of the West. The people who came to us then were those who wer6 stimulated with a hunger and a desire to occupy the land. But today that tide breaks itself within the great congested centers of population. and the burden put upon the producers of the country by the great growth of our cities. with all the influences that- grow out of such a condition. is rapidly weakening our productive energy until we find today that the cry is going up with increasing volume from the agricultural sections of this country for relief and for help in order that they may be built up and developed as in years gone by.