Those villages and towns have been destroyed. Two million of the people are exiles in foreign lands. without homes. for their homes have been destroyed. without means of living. for the fields that they tilled and from which they earned so rich harvests are covered by armies. and have been beaten down Into a desert. We are engaged in discussing a measure for the protection of the United States against undesirable immigrants. The proposal of the Senator from Massachusetts Is that. while we are closing the door against them. we shall specially provide that we do not close the door against these homeless people. who have illustrated the highest and the best qualities of citizenship. that we shall except them and permit another means 9f succoring their distress. through the soil of the United States. Millions of dollars are being paid by our people to feed in their own land those that remain. and in Holland those that have left their land.
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