Speech #640243137

If you pass this bill. I am sure you will find later on Chat you have made a bad mistake. With many of the States passing compulsory educational laws. preventing the youth of the country from going to work before they are 14 or 16 years of age. and Congress lately passing a vocational education law to instruct the youth of our country in trades and other callings. where. in Gods name. are you going to get the people to do the work that these poor immigrants would do whom you are shutting out under this bill? And what seems stranger still is that the Repre sentatives here who are strongest for the exclusion of immigrants and who are lined up today most solidly for the passage of this act .are the men who represent a section of this country that needs these toilers more than any other part of the United States. It is amazing that the Members who represent States that need these immigrants are so shortsighted. because I do not know where. in Gods world. they aregoing to get the people to do the hard manual labor that these poor aliens have to do that ome here. and with conditions as they are today I can not see for the life of me who is going to do the hard work the poor laboring man is now compelled to do in the future. I am sure the graduates of our schools will not do it. I am sure that the youth of our country you are going to prepare for toll under the new vocational education bill that you have just passed will not do it. and the work will remain undone. because you will not be able to get men to work upon the streets. in the sewers. upon the railroads. or upon the farms. and the need for domestic servants will be even greater than ever. Now. go ahead and pass this billI know you are going to do itand you will find that you are doing a great injustice to the immigrant as well as to the country at large. But I protest against its passage. and I hope that the President in his wisdom will veto it as he did before. and I am pretty sure he will.