Speech #640217271

They remain precisely the same if this amendment passes as they would if the law did not pass. if there were no law. The only difference is that under this. I freely admit. clumsy method of excluding what we seek to exclude. we exclude the Asiatic immigration from other places. which has begun to come in in large numbers. which it is desired to exclude. The purpose of the amendment is to exclude the people we started out to exclude. without offending somebody else. If I may repeat an illustration that I used yesterday. their position. as.I understand. is substantially this: "We told you that if you left thedoor open our laborers should not come LIV15 in. we have kept our word. our laborers have not come in. we have carried out the agreement In good faith.