Speech #640066335

These countries may have fallen ad their glory departed because of corruption. but that corruption was due to the fact that those countries were pagan and not Christian. This Nation will live because it is Christian. Although this question of immigration is more vital than the trust issue and the tariff question and has direct bearing on both. it relates in no way to your ancestors and mine. but does have much to do with the future of our children. It is a question to be determined whether Americans or foreigners are to govern and control the United States. Let us accept Tom Reeds method of holding the scales and arriving at results. and not be misled and swayed by momentary impulses because our ancestors cane from somewhere some time ago. or be blinded by the sentiment of the hour when the country stands. in such imminent peril. There is nothing analogous in the causes which caused Rome and Greece to fall with the perils which beset this country. and there is no relationship or analogy with the kind of people who came here 100 or 200 years ago and those who are coming here n1OW. * Even of the kind coming here now we might assimilate a few. but if the onrushing horde continues in unabated numbers the dominance of the AngloSaxon is doomed on this continent. With me it is a question of number and kind. and therein rests my opposition to unrestricted immigration. Your ancestors and mine perhaps came from the north 6f Europe. emigrating from the fair valleys of the Palatinate. They were people whose ancestors were first heard of as emerging from the Baltic Sea section. and were referred to by Tacitus and Cmsar. They swept everything before them. beating back the best soldiers of the Cmsars. until the gates of the Eternal City were battered down.