I ask you to strike out the word "agricultural." I am an agriculturist. I love the occupation and realize its great.value to this land. but there are a million other avocations which are primarily necessary to the wellbeing of this country. Take the rich South. with its teeming acres that demand aid. the picking of cotton or the draining of swamps or reclaiming wornout land. and in a thousand ways a more liberal system of immigration will aid it. So I say. my friends. with all earnestness. strike out the word agricultural." strike out the words "from Belgium." and then go forth again and let our Statue of Liberty ilthe harbor of New York mean what it was put there fora shining light. a beacon for the downtrodden and the oppressed from every clime with clean bodies. sane minds. honest. faithful purposes. and the rest we can leave to the assimilation of this wonderful country. this Godblessed land.
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