Surely so important a measure is entitled to consideration. surely men will not sidestep or dodge this kind of an issue. Mr. President. it is the history of all great wars that large immigration follows Immediately after the struggle is over. I said the history of all great wars. I should have said of wars in Europe. It has been almost invariably the rule that when the conflict shall have closed there is a large emigration from the regions of country over which the conflict was waged. I shall not detain the Senate in going back and recounting those instances. but every Senator will recall them. It is for the reason that war disturbs the family relations. breaks up old friendships. pulls men out of the grooves to which they are accustomed and puts them in another line of life. for the reason that the country in which their homes were situated may have been scourged by war. the discouragement and (disappointment environing the man as he leaves his regiment or his army and starts back to his home. and he naturally seeks a place where he may begin life under different conditions. where lie may seize if possible new opportunities. and especially where lie may escape what lie believes to be conditions which it is not within his power as an individual to mollify or overcome.
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Generalization that all great wars are followed by large immigration.