Years ago we had an insane asylum at Napa City. Cal.. but after a while it became full. and the management refused to admit another patient. I say. as an asylum for immigrants. the.United States is full. Ninetynine million people are all it will hold. and we have a hundred million on hand. For one I am in favor of closing the gates of our country against laboring immigrants. at least until what we now have are assimilated. Some one has said: The literacy test. and the tests and restrictions which accompany It. constitute an even more radical change In the policy of the Nation. The same force of reason could have been used against the failure of the management to admit patients to the Napa Insane Asylum after it was full. You might just as well demand that your friend should drink a barrel of water because he asked for water. when thirsty as to claim the United States should not stop foreign immigration when its needs are supplied. LII193 I consider the passage of this bill of more Importance than was the passage of the Underwood tariff bill or the banking hnd currency bill. Those measures dealt with the. finances of the country. this bill deals with the personnel of the country. and as men are of more importance than dollars. so this bill Is of more importance than any measure dealing with money.
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