If they lack sympathy certainly they can add no strength to this Republic when they become American citizens. If they lack knowledge of how to adjust themselves to it they can certainly add no political strength to our Government. Looking behind the handicap of an oversupply of pauper labor from Europe to the political effect of unlimited and unregulated immigration it takes no prophet to see a great danger to American institutions. I will not deny. few men would be rash enough to deny. that in time. that after the birth of another generation. these people may be able to adjust themselves to American institutions. but certainly until that adjustment shall have been made there is danger in the situation and it is one of such importance that prudent men would like to avoid it. Wage earners In this country are seriously alarmed at the prospect of an increasing number of competing laborers from Europe. They have appealed to Congress to relieve them from this great and real danger. The gentleman from New York has complained at the statement made by the chairman of the Committee on Immigration that the effect of this unrestricted immigration will be to beat down the social. moral. and wage standard in the United States. He seems particularly to object to that part of the statement made by the gentleman from Alabama that the moral standard will be lowered by excessive immigration. In that connection I may be permitted to say. I hope. that the criminal records of the northeastern States. where the bulk of this immigration has settled. thoroughly sustains the position taken by the gentleman from Alabama. although I think that in discussing the question the chairman of the committee particularly had in mind the wage scale. More than one Representative from the State of New York has said in the course of this debate that that great State has invested the tremendous sum of $36.000.000 in the care and support of alien insane. It could hardly be denied that a large part of this insanity embraces the class we commonly refer to as the criminal insane.
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Generalization that immigrants lack sympathy and knowledge, leading to political weakness and moral decline.