Speech #630387195

I should like to know who the people composing this committee are. and where they propose to put these Belgians. and why it is thai they are not helping some of the shoemakers of Belgium to get into the shoemaking industry ill this country and get established there. and furnish them with funds. and furnish them with employment. They are suffering. just as much as any agricultural immigrant who may want to come ill here. A man who is deprived of his occupation and deprived of his way of making a living is just as much entitled to help if he works in a factory as the man who works on a farm. If we are going to be generous to these people. let us be generous to them regardless of the occupation they have been following Ia Belgium. and regardless of the occupation they propose to follow in this country. Let us follow the principles of humanity) pointed out so eloquently by the Senator from New York. and help out all of these poor people if they deserve help and assistance ..