Speech #640068099

Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. This militant suffragette question was injected into the discussion after this new clause was offered last year in the Committee of Immigration. It had not an earthly thing in the world to do with the insertion of that clause in the immigration bill. It was brought to the attention of the Committee on Immigration that certain labor agitators were preaching the doetrine out in California and elsewhere that it was right to conmit sabotage. as it was called. that is. that they had the right deliberately to destroy the product of scab labor. for instance. and that it was right deliberately to interfere with the proper shipment of goods. in order to make more work for the particular union to which these men belonged. It was in order to stop the preaching of that doctrine that this clause was inserted. and it was because I thought men ought to be permitted to preach any doctrine which to them seems good that I objected to the insertion of this clause. I believe men ought to be permitted to preach that which they think right.