Speech #650217947

I do not object to establishing a policy of that sort if it does not work a grievous injustice to many honest people. Let us see what might happen. I do not know what the immigration conditions will be after this war is over. but I expect when we face that question. if it is any part of my duty to face it. tho Senator from Massachusetts will not be more anxious than I am to have as little foreign immigration into this country as is possible. and that no man in this Chamber on either side will possibly go beyond my position in that regard. I think one of thegreat troubles we have had in this country is that we have had too much undigested and indigestible foreign immigration already. But be that as it may. extreme as I am in my views on that question. I hesitate to penalize anybody who has lionestly and wholeheartedly given up his allegiance to a foreign prince or a foreign potentate and who comes to this country with a wholehearted desire to become and remain permanently an American citizen-