In other words. although this measure had been approved by two separately elected Congresses of the United States fresh from the people. and who are supposed to represent the freshest expression of opinion by the people. lie said that "the matter is too fundamental to be settled otherwise." and he wanted the platforms of the parties to speak out upon this policy. Well. I remember that back in 1896. as long ago as that. the Democratic Party in the platform of that year said: We hold that the most efficient way of protecting American labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with It In the home market. That is just the idea that has been expressed by Democratic Senators in debate this afternoon. it is the opinion and judgment of both Republicans and Democrats. I take It. in this body. In that same year the Republican national platform contained this plank: For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of lowpriced labor. we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced and so extendedMark the wordsso extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. So the American people. through their two great parties. as early a5 1896 had spoken upon this question. In the Sixtysecond Congress this measure was passed and vetoed not for adequate reasons. according to my judgment.
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