Speech #660167384

I sought and. obtained a place on the committee which has this subject in charge and.have attended every meeting of the committee. As a member of the subcommittee I spent several. days in. New York. the port through which most of these immigrants enter the country. studying the problem there and seeking to provide a remedy for it. I shall. continue tot give my best thought. attention. and labor! to it and urge upon the c9mmittee. upon Congress.. and upon. &he. country such measures as will save our country from. threatened ruin. by the changing of America froth a home for Americans to a Babylon of strange voices. strange faces. strange unAmerican ways. a place. from which the spirit of America has. taken its departureanother Europe. another Orient. Since I used the language quoted the attack upon our immigration laws has intensified. For several days now a large delegation have been before the House Committee: on Immigration and. Naturalization. asking that the laws.be suspended or modified so as to admit to Texas approximately 200O000. pauper laborers annually and. a corresponding number to. neighboring States. The delegation consist of plantation owners. a labor agent for several large beetsuar manufacturing corporations located in some 10. different States. sulphurmine owners. lawyers. and others representing various. interests. Coalmine owners join- in the request.