In the meantime you must either anchor outside of Sandy Hook or do the best you can to find another habitation." And that is the kind of legislation that is seriously proposed in the halls of the Congress of this libertyloving land. of this land where we boast of justice. of fair pay. of brotherly love. of humanity. of altruism! Does it not provoke sardonic laughter? The pity of it is that this is the project of one who declares. with entire sincerity. that he admires our immigrants. that he hates persecution and oppression. Yet his panacea would effectively exclude the very men of whom he speaks with sympathy. Again. how many of a certain class of people can come here? Take the Russian JewsI speak of them because I have studied their condition with more detail than that of other immigrants. and their fate is nearest to my heart. because I know the absolute necessity of keeping our doors open to this people. whose sufferings have not been equaled in tie sad history of that muchsuffering nation60 per cent of all. classified Russians come from Poland and are only in small part Jews. The remaining 40 per -cent of the Russian immigration is Jewish. On what basis will the percentage limit be calculated? Which of these two classes of Russian immigrants would secure the benefits of it? On which of them would the inexorable rule of exclusion operate? Why. the poor unfortunates who have been driven from pillar to post. who have no choice hut that of destruction on .the one hand and death on the other. would be required to return. if they may. into that charnel house from which they have sought to emerge in the hope of finding liberty and freedom in this blessed land because our finest traditions have been subordinated to an arithmetical test.
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