Mr.. Chairman. the springs of the race have dried up in Asia. and in the lands deprived of its fresh and lifegiving elements. decay. desolation. ignorance. barbarism. and retrogression reign in desert silence where once power and empire flourished. Immigration. the advent of new men. new blood. new brain and brawn in our land. is not a question of philanthropy for America. not a merely sentimental tribute paid to humanity and hospital. it is a matter of life and death. for the nation that seeks to arrest or stifle the natural laws of life and movement must eventually pay the penalty of lawlessness in stagnation and arrested growth. . Only those who will not read the story of the race only those who refuse to see and recognize the reasons for the growth and greatness of the American Republlcwill be blind to the blessings of immigration and its necessity in our national life. The wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era which kept Europe plunged in turmoil and wasteful struggle for 30 years were coeval with arrested growth and progress in this Republic and mark the age the stream of new life from Europe to Amierica was at its feeblest and our national existencewas in most peril from internal dissensions and weaknesses. With the downfall of Napoleon and the cessation of war a stream of immigration set in which has been growing in volume ever since. Its flow has been westward into the virgin lands that had waited all the ages for the coming of the mal with the plow and the ax. and out of them was carved the splendid Commonwealths thatextend from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean and that hang like a chain of jewels about the breast ofthe Republic. Wherever that refreshing and invigorating stream of new life flowed. wherever the lifegiving tides of immigration swept. agriculture has flourished. industry has sprung up. cities have grown. and colleges hav been founded. peace and prosperity have followed in its wal. .. education has been fostered. schools erected. churches planted. railroads built. and civilization has blossomed as the rose. This is no fanciful picture. Look around!
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