I should be willing to adliit every foreigner of good character who had deliberately chosen America fromi aniong the countries of the world to be the land of his allegianceto be his home and the home of his children. Such aliens. especially those of them who could read and write. would in a. reasonable time become familiar with our institutions and our laws and conform themselves to our ways if they should find our ways better than their own. The problem of immigration is not so much a problem of numbers ats of assimilation. and it is an enormous problem. A great literary genius of our day. himiself ai foreigner aid a Hebrew. has called America a melting pot in which men of all nations are to be fused in order that a higher type may be produced. A partial list of the nationalities of foreigners resident in the twentyfourth district of Pennsylvania will indicate how comLI--170 plicated the blend must be If this country is to be such a melting pot.
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