But. nevertheless. to take an example. if there were an aggregate of.10.000.000 foreignborn people In the United States. and If the first 5.000.000 of those people had come from England. Ireland. Scotland. and Wales. and fourfifths of that 5.000.000 had been here for 10 years on the average. whereas fourfifths of the other 5.000.000 who came from the other parts of Europe had been here only 2 or 3 years. in endeavoring to ascertain the intention of these people to become American citizens by the test as to the number who had made application for citizenship. the comparison could not be fairly made between the recent immigrant and the one who had been here for many years. speaking on the average. I want to ask the Senator this question. because It Is very pertinent: Does the Senator think that the foreigner who comes here is the more desirable who takes out naturalizatioh papers. or does he think that the one who does not become a citizen is the more desirable?
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