I want to say this: The man who comes here to spend three months ol! four months in the United States to obtain a certain number of dollars he can obtain by his work when lie needs a dollar. and when somebody in the United States needs his work and is willing to give it to him. and goes back to the country from whence he came. it strikes me does something pretty equal for him and us. I would a great deal rather he would go back. unless after lie has stayed he was going to become a bona fide American citizen with American ideals and with American principles of devotion to liberty and equality and fraternity and all that. I regard with very much less distrust the immigrant who comes to the United States to work for a few months and then goes back to wherever he came from than I do the immigrant who comes here and stays afterwards and uses his American vote as a fulcrum to serve the purpose of some European love or hatred. I (o not much care whether it be his love or hatred. I can more easily excuse a man who comes here and uses his American vote as a naturalized citizen as a fulcrum to extend the desire or purpose or will of some European power out of love than I can excuse the man who does the same thing because he hates some European power more than he loves the United States. I (1o not see how the man who comes to America to work for 30 days or 90 days. and gives us the benefit of his labor while lie takes with him the benefit of our dollars has hurt us particularly. I do see how the man who beyond that stays in order to be nominally an American citizen and not really one while lie represents some foreign people in affection or in hatred. it makes no difference much which. is absolutely undesirable.
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